The article is based on a lecture contributing to a series titled ‘Speaking of Others’. It briefly reviews the concept's history in anthropology but the main focus is on a re-examination of the author's contribution in his Time and the Other. The aim of an account of its prehistory and the current state of the question is to reaffirm the ‘other’ as a productive, critical idea in the face of inflationary talk about other, others, and othering.
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Johannes Fabian (2006) studied this question.
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