Time and the Other: How Anthropology Makes Its Object

Contents......Page 2
Preface and Acknowledgments......Page 4
1. Time
and the Emerging Other......Page 8
From Sacred to Secular Time: The Philosophical Traveler......Page 9
From History to Evolution: The Naturalization of Time......Page 13
Some Uses of Time in Anthropological Discourse......Page 18
Taking Stock: Anthropological Discourse and the Denial of Coevalness......Page 20
2. Our Time,
Their Time, No Time:
Coevalness Denied......Page 26
Circumventing Coevalness: Cultural Relativity......Page 27
Preempting Coevalness: Cultural Taxonomy......Page 34
3. Time
and Writing About the Other......Page 43
Contradcition: Real or Apparent......Page 44
Temporalization: Means or End?......Page 45
Time and Tense: The Ethnographic Present......Page 48
In My Time, Ethnography and the Automographic Past......Page 51
Politics of Time: The Temporal Wolf in Taxonomic Sheep's Clothing......Page 56
4. The Other
and the Eye: Time
and the Rhetoric of Vision......Page 61
Method and Vision......Page 62
Space and Memory: Topoi of Discourse......Page 63
Language as Arrangement: Knowledge Visible......Page 66
Vide et Impera: The Other as Object......Page 68
"The Symbol Belongs to the Orient": Symbolic Anthropology in Hegel's Aesthetic......Page 70
The Other as Icon: The Case of "Symbolic Anthropology"......Page 74
5. Conclusions......Page 80
Retrospect and Summary......Page 81
Issues for Debate......Page 85
Coevalness: Points of Departure......Page 87
Notes......Page 92
References Cited......Page 101
Index
......Page 109