Time and the Other: How Anthropology Makes Its Object

ISBN-13: 9780231169271 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 272 str.

Johannes Fabian; Matti Bunzl

Opis

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. Johannes Fabian challenges the assumption that anthropologists live in the "here and now," that their subjects live in the "there and then," and that the "other" exists in a time not contemporary with our own. He also pinpoints the emergence, transformation, and differentiation of a variety of uses of time in the history of anthropology that set specific parameters between power and inequality. In this edition, a new postscript by the author revisits popular conceptions of the "other" and the attempt to produce and represent knowledge of other(s).

Recenzje

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

O autorze

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).