Il tempo e gli altri. La politica del tempo in antropologia

Fabian's Time and the Other: How Anthropology Makes its Object marks a point of transformation in the rhetorics and epistemologies of anthropologists everywhere. The work is over thirty years old now, so much of its spirit of deconstructive discipline-flaying seems needlessly acerbic, especially sin Leggi tutto

A very difficult book. But it got me started thinking about this: temporal displacement. The idea is that besides killing , assimilating, and ignoring others, we can also act as if they live in a different developmental time; that we do not share time with them. This was/is a crucial insight about h Leggi tutto

This is a text I continually return to, both for writing (on cultural and film) and in my day-to-day thinking on the politics of representation. Definitely a foundational text.

a critique of anthropology and its imperialist construction of "time" -- i come back to this book all the time!

super super interesting

Excellent, well thought out, arguments; great advocacy of praxis and polemic over the pitfalls of temporalizing discourse successfully demonstrated to being endemic to anthropological discourse and tracing of such to both colonialism and the dawn of the scientific revolution through the Canon, even

An extremely tough read, but well worth the time. Will update this review with a summary.

Bastante sugerente para estudiar críticamente la historia de la antropología. Su propuesta de una teoría de la coetaneidad fundamentada en una epistemología materialista de la conciencia causó interés.