Time and the Other How Anthropology Makes Its Object

Name: Time and the Other How Anthropology Makes Its Object
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ISBN: 9780231169271

ISBN-10: 0231169272

ISBN-13: 9780231169271

Edition: 2014

Authors: Johannes Fabian, Matti Bunzl

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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…

Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 4/15/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 6.54" wide x 8.94" long x 0.64" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English