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Time and other : how anthropology makes its object / Johannes Fabian

Author(s): Fabian, Johannes

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Main Title: Time and other : how anthropology makes its object
Author(s): Fabian, Johannes
Publisher: New York : Columbia University Press, 2002
Collation: 205 p.
ISBN: 9780231125772
Dewey Class: 306.01
Contents: Foreword to Johannes Fabian's Time and the Other: Syntheses of a Critical Anthropology/by Matti Bunzl -- Preface to the Reprint Edition -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1: Time and the Emerging Other -- From Sacred to Secular Time: The Philosophical Traveler -- From History to Evolution: The Naturalization of Time -- Some Uses of Time in Anthropological Discourse -- Taking Stock: Anthropological Discourse and Denial of Coevalness -- Chapter 2: Our Time, Their Time, No Time: Coevalness Denied -- Circumventing Coevalness: Cultural Relativity -- Preempting Coevalness: Cultural Taxonomy -- Chapter 3: Time and Writing About the Other -- Contradiction: Real or Apparent -- Temporalization: Means or End? -- Time and Tense: The Ethnographic Present -- In My Time: Ethnography and the Autobiographic Past -- Politics of Time: The Temporal Wolf in Taxonomic Sheep's Clothing -- Chapter 4: The Other and the Eye: Time and the Rhetoric of Vision -- Method and Vision -- Space and Memory -- Logic as Arrangement: Knowledge Visible -- Vide et Impera: The Other as Object -- "The Symbol Belongs to the 0rient": Symbolic Anthropology in Hegel's Aesthetic -- The Other as Icon: The Case of "Symbolic Anthropology' -- Chapter 5: Conclusions -- Retrospect and Summary -- Issues for Debate -- Coevalness: Points of departure.
Language: English
Subject: Anthropology -- Philosophy.
BRN: 1672