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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Hastrup, Kirsten

Titel

Anthropology and the exaggeration of culture: A review article

Ist Teil von

• Ethnos, 1985-01, Vol.50 (3-4), p.313-324

Ort / Verlag

Taylor & Francis Group

Erscheinungsjahr

1985

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Sociological Abstracts

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• A review essay on James A. Boon's Other Tribes, Other Scribes: Symbolic Anthropology in the Comparative Study of Cultures, Histories, Religions and Texts (Cambridge: Cambridge U Press, 1982), & Johannes Fabian's Time and the Other. How Anthropology Makes Its Object (New York: Columbia U Press, 1983 [see listings in IRPS No. 34]). Recent anthropology reveals the emergence of a new episteme, presented comprehensively & clearly by Boon. Both works reflect the emergence of anthropology's historical self-awareness. Boon suggests a concept of episteme as a culture of time, implying a view of history as comprising discontinuous time-spaces, each having its own temporality & historicity defined within itself. Boon & Fabian draw attention to the Enlightenment roots of anthropology. An awareness of the inherently comparative character of culture & of the pervasiveness of cultural discontinuities is a crucial insight offered by these works. 18 References. W. H. Stoddard