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Book SynopsisTime 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.
Trade ReviewPraise for the first edition: "A radical epistemological critique of anthropological writing." -- George Marcus, University of California, Irvine "The confidence and optimism that Fabian expresses contributes in no small way to the exhilarating intellectual experience this book offers." -- Gauri Viswanathan, Columbia University x
Table of ContentsForeword: 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
