Time and the Work of Anthropology : Critical Essays 1971-1981
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Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Studies in Anthropology and History
ISBN-10
3718652226
ISBN-13
9783718652228
Publisher
Harwood-Academic Publishers
Imprint
Harwood-Academic Publishers
Country of Manufacture
CH
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jan 30th, 1992
Print length
318 Pages
Weight
590 grams
Product Classification:
Anthropology
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Intended for anthropologists, these collected papers present the author's concern with modern thought and the problem of ethnography. They demonstrate that the arguments formulated in Fabian's "Time and the Other" were the result of practical problems he faced working as an ethnographer.
The development of the dialogical approach, the autobiographical perspective and the central role of text-interpretation are all seen as characteristics of post-modern ethnography, arising from the daily chores of field research. The breakthrough into time and history, away from the timeless theorizing of structuralism and functionalism, is seen as inevitable when anthropology is forced to think about its own epistemology. Another current concern is taken up with reflections on the politics of representing the other. In the later essays, he opposes post-modern fashions and re-asserts the need to continue with a truly critical agenda.
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