Contents
Preface and Acknowledgments Chapter 1: Time and the Emerging Other
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From Sacred to Secular Time: The Philosophical 2 TraveLer From HiJtory to Evolution: Th,. Naturalization of Time Some Uses of Time in Anthropological Disc(JUTse Taking Srock: A thropotogical Discourse and the Denial rff Coroniness 25
Chapter 2: Our Time, Their Time, No Time: Coevalness Denied
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Circumventing Coevalness: Cultural Relativit)' Prumpting Coeval:ness: Cultural Taxcmom),

Chapter 3: Time and Writing Aoout the Other

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Contradiction: Real or Apparent TemjxJraiiUltion: l H

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eam or End?

Time and Tense: The Ethrwgraphic Present

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In My Time: Ethnography and the Autobiographic Past 87 Politics if Time: The Tempoml Wolf in Taxonomic Sheep's Clothing 97
Chapter 4: The Other and the Eye: Time and the Rhetoric of Vision

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MttJwd and ViJiol1

Space and Memory: Topo; of Discourse
Logic ar .'\rml1gtmenl: Kn(m:ltdge Visib/€

Vide et lmpem: The Other

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Object

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"T/u Symbol Btlongs to the Orient": Symbolic Anthropology in Hegel's Aesthetic 12} The Other as leon: The Care of "Symholu Anthropology" 131

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Chapter 5: Conclusions
Retrospect and S ummary 144

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Issues/or Debate

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Coeualness: Points of Departure

Notes References Cited Index

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Preface and Acknowledgments
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ltind of pwple who knuw the val1M of time, and you art' tht ltind oj people who dQ71't know the vallU! of fi�," "/ MUll not," retorted Mr. Childers, 'after m11it)'mg him frmn huul

ifyou mean tho.t you can makt mort lIumq of your time than I can of mim, I slwuldjudgefrom your appearance that )'OU art about to foot, "/he h01Wur of Imtr.,JJ ing JOu--but right. "

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WHEN THEY APPROACH the problem of Time. certain philosophers feel the need to fortify themselves