Time and the Other: How Anthropology Makes Its Object

Fabian, Johannes

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0231169272 ISBN 13: 9780231169271

Casa editrice: Columbia Univ Pr, 2014

Time and the Other is a classic work that critically reexamined the relationship between anthropologists and their subjects and reoriented the approach literary critics, philosophers, and historians took to the study of humankind. Johannes Fabian challenges the assumption that anthropologists live in the "here and now," that their subjects live in the "there and then," and that the "other" exists in a time not contemporary with our own. He also pinpoints the emergence, transformation, and differentiation of a variety of uses of time in the history of anthropology that set specific parameters between power and inequality. In this edition, a new postscript by the author revisits popular conceptions of the "other" and the attempt to produce and represent knowledge of other(s).

L'autore:

Johannes Fabian is professor emeritus of cultural anthropology at the University of Amsterdam. His books includeOut of Our Minds: Reason and Madness in the Exploration of Central Africa;Memory Against Culture: Arguments and Reminders; Anthropology with an Attitude: Critical Essays; andEthnography as Commentary: Writing from the Virtual Archive.

Matti Bunzl is professor of anthropology and history at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the author ofAnti-Semitism and Islamophobia: Hatreds Old and New in Europe.