Time and the other: how anthropology makes its object

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.;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 in.