Time and the Other: How Anthropology Makes Its Object

By Johannes Fabian

Book 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231125771
• ISBN13: 9780231125772
• Release Date: April 2002
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 205 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

Not a thriller, but a foundation of modern anthropology

A lot of the critique of how anthropologists "make their object" in the 80s and 90s can be traced back to some of the ideas in this book. It is a profoundly important analysis of how time is manipulated in such a way as to create a boundary between "them" and "us." As the other reviewer says, it is not an easy read, but I don't think you can really know the history of recent anthropological theory without giving this book some of your attention.