TY  - CONF
A1  - Rauschenbach, Sina
A2  - Huss, Bernhard
T1  - Presentism and the denial of coevalness
T2  - Von Neuem: Tradition und Novation in der Vormoderne
N2  - In Time and the Other Johannes Fabian analysed how modern conceptions of time were “not only secularized and naturalized but also thoroughly spatialized.” According to Fabian, this was particularly visible in modern anthropology which “promoted a scheme in terms of which not only past cultures but all living societies were irrevocably placed on a temporal slope, a stream of Time – some upstream, others downstream.”3 Anthropologists attributed otherness to a distant past which was traditionally associated with cultural retardation, i.e. a lower degree of development, progress, and civilization. Cultural difference was expressed in terms of temporal distance while temporal distance was attributed to spatial remoteness. The result was a phenomenon that Fabian coined “the denial of coevalness” which pointed towards “a persistent and systematic tendency to place the referent(s) of anthropology in a Time other than the present of the producer of anthropological discourse.
Y1  - 2024
UR  - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/64284
SN  - 978-3-8253-8663-4
SN  - 978-3-8253-9582-7
VL  - GRM-Beiheft 113
SP  - 195
EP  - 211
PB  - Universitätsverlag Winter GmbH
CY  - Heidelberg
ER  -