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kmenier commented on the word allochronism
Coined by anthropologist Johannes Fabian, it describes the denial of the simultaneity of the ethnographic other (whether person, body, art form, culture, or race) with the representing subject and the consequent placing of that other in an other time.
March 26, 2009