Time and the Other

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,...

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.

约翰尼斯•费边，著名人类学家，曾在美国西北大学、卫斯理学院等多所大学执教，担任波恩大学、科隆大学、巴黎大学的访问学者。退休前任教于荷兰阿姆斯特丹大学，现居德国。他写了很多批评性的著作，《时间与他者》是他的代表作，这本书是人类学领域的经典著作，改变了人类学家“建立研究对象”的方法。