Time and the Other: How Anthropology Makes Its Object / Edition 1

by Johannes Fabian, Matti Bunzl

Overview

Fabian's study is a classic in the field that changed the way anthropologists relate to their subjects and is of immense value not only to anthropologists but to all those concerned with the study of man. A new foreward by Matti Bunzl brings the influence of Fabian's study up to the present. Time and the Other is a critique of the notions that anthropologists are "here and now," their objects of study are "there and then," and that the "other" exists in a time not contemporary with our own.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780231125772
Publisher:	Columbia University Press
Publication date:	03/06/2002
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	205
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.60(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Johannes Fabian is professor of cultural anthropology at the University of Amsterdam.

Matti Bunzl is professor of anthropology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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

Delivers a radical epistemological critique of anthropological writing.

George Marcus

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

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