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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Foreword: Syntheses of a Critical Anthropology, by Matti Bunzl
Preface to the Reprint Edition
Preface and Acknowledgments
1. Time and the Emerging Other
From Sacred to Secular Time: The Philosophical Traveler
From History to Evolution: The Naturalization of Time
Some Uses of Time in Anthropological Discourse
Taking Stock: Anthropological Discourse and Denial of Coevalness
2. Our Time, Their Time, No Time: Coevalness Denied
Circumventing Coevalness: Cultural Relativity
Preempting Coevalness: Cultural Taxonomy
3. Time and Writing About the Other
Contradiction: Real or Apparent
Temporalization: Means or End?
Time and Tense: The Ethnographic Present
In My Time: Ethnography and the Autobiographic Past
Politics of Time: The Temporal Wolf in Taxonomic Sheep’s Clothing
4. The Other and the Eye: Time and the Rhetoric of Vision
Method and Vision
Space and Memory: Topoi of Discourse
Logic as Arrangement: Knowledge Visible
Vide et Impera: The Other as Object
“The Symbol Belongs to the Orient”: Symbolic Anthropology in Hegel’s Aesthetic
The Other as Icon: The Case of “Symbolic Anthropology”
5. Conclusions
Retrospect and Summary
Issues for Debate
Coevalness: Points of Departure
Postscript: The Other Revisited
Notes
References Cited
Index
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