Abstract: Sport as a physical culture and social practice is often used as an approach to understanding the way of cultural life of ‘the other' communities by anthropologists, sociologists, cultural scientists and historians. Johannes Fabian's book Time and the Other: How Anthropology Makes Its Objects was first published in 1983. In July 2018, the Chinese version, being translated by Ma Jianxiong and Lin Zhuyun was officially published by Beijing Normal University Press, and this has made up for an important part of the Chinese translation of classic work in anthropology. In Time and the Others, the author criticizes the colonialism, hegemonism, ideologies and politics contained in the epistemology of the Western-based anthropological practice, and points out the fundamental contradiction of anthropological research. His argument has made a great impact on Western academia, causing introspection and discussion about the epistemology and methodology in the entire humanities and social sciences. The sports anthropology in China should not be the projection of Western experience, but also be an attempt to create a new relationship between anthropologists and their subjects, and to make a dialogue between the historical experience of the body and the social meaning of reality. It is expected that anthropology will renew its vitality in different soils.

Key words: Time and the Other, Sports Anthropology, Sport, Physical Culture, Heterochronous thinking, Social Practice