Time and the Other: How Anthropology Makes Its Object

by Johannes Fabian, Matti Bunzl (Foreword by)

Overview

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).

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780231169271
Publisher:	Columbia University Press
Publication date:	04/15/2014
Edition description:	With a New Postscript by the Author
Pages:	272
Sales rank:	691,909
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.70(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Johannes Fabian is professor emeritus of cultural anthropology at the University of Amsterdam. His books include Out of Our Minds: Reason and Madness in the Exploration of Central Africa; Memory Against Culture: Arguments and Reminders; Anthropology with an Attitude: Critical Essays; and Ethnography 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 of Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia: Hatreds Old and New in Europe.

Table of Contents

Foreword: Syntheses of a Critical Anthropology, by Matti Bunzl
Preface to the Reprint Edition
Preface and Acknowledgments
1. Time and the Emerging Other
2. Our Time, Their Time, No Time: Coevalness Denied
3. Time and Writing About the Other
4. The Other and the Eye: Time and the Rhetoric of Vision
5. Conclusions
Postscript: The Other Revisited
Notes
References Cited
Index

What People are Saying About This

George Marcus

Delivers a radical epistemological critique of anthropological writing.

Editorial Reviews

The confidence and optimism that Fabian expresses contributes in no small way to the exhilarating intellectual experience this book offers.

Columbia University - Gauri Viswanathan

A radical epistemological critique of anthropological writing.

Irvine University of California

Praise for the first edition:

"A radical epistemological critique of anthropological writing."—George Marcus, University of California, Irvine

"The confidence and optimism that Fabian expresses contributes in no small way to the exhilarating intellectual experience this book offers."—Gauri Viswanathan, Columbia University

From the Publisher

Delivers a radical epistemological critique of anthropological writing.

George Marcus