Time and the Other - How Anthropology Makes Its Object

Time and the Other is a classic work that upended 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 objects live in the there and then, and that the other exists in a time not contemporary with our own. He finds in the history of anthropology the emergence, transformation, and differentiation of a variety of uses of time that set specific parameters between power and inequality. A new postscript revisits conceptions of the other and attempts to produce and represent the knowledge of other(s).

List 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

About the author

Johannes Fabian, geb. 1937, lehrte Kulturanthropologie an der Northwestern University, Wesleyan University und an der Universität von Zaire, ehe er 1980 einem Ruf an die Universität von Amsterdam folgte. Er war u.a. Fellow am Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin und am Getty Center in Kalifornien. Er hat sich mit religiösen Bewegungen, Sprache, Arbeit, Malerei und Theater als Ausdrucksweisen afrikanischer Gegenwartskultur beschäftigt. Seine kritischen Arbeiten sind der Theorie und Kolonialgeschichte seines Faches gewidmet. Seine bekanntesten Bücher sind Time and the Other: How Anthropology makes its Object (1983), Power and Performance (1990), Language and Colonial Power (1991), Time and the Work of Anthropology (1991), Remembering the Present. Painting and Popular History in Zaire (1996) sowie Moments of Freedom. Anthropology and Popular Culture (1998).§

Summary

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.

Report

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

Product details

• Authors: Matti Bunzl, Johanne Fabian, Johannes Fabian, Fabian Johannes
• Assisted by: Bunzl Matti (Foreword)
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.06.2014
• EAN: 9780231169271
• ISBN: 978-0-231-16927-1
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Research, Anthropology, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Statistics, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Colonialism & imperialism, Politics & government, Social and cultural history, Politics and government, Social and cultural anthropology, Colonialism and imperialism, Social research & statistics, Social research and statistics, anthropology; methodology; social history