TY - JOUR
T1 - Exhuming the ancestors
T2 - A reassessment of Fabian’s critique of allochronism
AU - Rosa, Frederico D.
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UID/ANT/04038/2019
PY - 2019/12/1
Y1 - 2019/12/1
N2 - The article critically reassesses Joahnnes Fabian’s contention that anthropology reveals, in its history, an overall tendency to create in discourse a temporal distance between the observer and the observed—as between the West and the rest—that contradicts ethnography’s basic epistemological condition of sharing the same time. The article sustains that the overbearing attitude of actively searching the “faults” of classical anthropology, while not admitting the legitimacy of its vistas, generates historiographic distortions that strongly affect the way anthropologists relate themselves, both politically and heuristically, with their discipline’s past. The article explores, first, the ways in which the language-centered components of the Americanist tradition may contradict Fabian’s thesis; secondly, it identifies comparable uses of the vernacular record in other anthropological traditions; and finally, it addresses the ethical and intellectual predicaments of rejecting pre-colonial studies.
AB - The article critically reassesses Joahnnes Fabian’s contention that anthropology reveals, in its history, an overall tendency to create in discourse a temporal distance between the observer and the observed—as between the West and the rest—that contradicts ethnography’s basic epistemological condition of sharing the same time. The article sustains that the overbearing attitude of actively searching the “faults” of classical anthropology, while not admitting the legitimacy of its vistas, generates historiographic distortions that strongly affect the way anthropologists relate themselves, both politically and heuristically, with their discipline’s past. The article explores, first, the ways in which the language-centered components of the Americanist tradition may contradict Fabian’s thesis; secondly, it identifies comparable uses of the vernacular record in other anthropological traditions; and finally, it addresses the ethical and intellectual predicaments of rejecting pre-colonial studies.
KW - Americanist tradition
KW - critique of anthropology
KW - ethnography
KW - History of anthropology
KW - Johannes Fabian
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U2 - 10.1177/0308275X18821172
DO - 10.1177/0308275X18821172
M3 - Article
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SN - 0308-275X
VL - 39
SP - 458
EP - 477
JO - Critique of Anthropology
JF - Critique of Anthropology
IS - 4
ER -