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Time and the Other
How Anthropology Makes Its Object
Häftad, 2002
308 kr
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Fabian's study is a classic in the field that changed the way anthropologists relate to their subjects and is of immense value not only to anthropologists but to all those concerned with the study of man. A new foreward by Matti Bunzl brings the influence of Fabian's study up to the present. Time …
Time and the Other
How Anthropology Makes Its Object
Inbunden, 2014
1209 kr
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Time and the Other is a classic work that critically reexamined the relationship between anthropologists and their subjects and reoriented the approach literary critics, philosophers, and historians took to the study of humankind. Johannes Fabian challenges the assumption that anthropologists live …
Time and the Other
How Anthropology Makes Its Object
Häftad, 2014
308 kr
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Time and the Other is a classic work that critically reexamined the relationship between anthropologists and their subjects and reoriented the approach literary critics, philosophers, and historians took to the study of humankind. Johannes Fabian challenges the assumption that anthropologists live …
Power and Performance
Ethnographic Explorations Through Proverbial Wisdom and Theater in Shaba, Zaire
Häftad, 1990
284 kr
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Power is eaten whole (""Le pouvoir se mange entier""). In 1985 the distinguished anthropologist Johannes Fabian, engaged in fieldwork in the Shaba province of Zaire, first encountered this saying about power. Its implications - for the charismatic religious movements Fabian was examining, for the …
Language and Colonial Power
The Appropriation of Swahili in the Former Belgian Congo 1880-1938
Häftad, 1991
397 kr
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In this study, inquiry will be directed to the past, and it will, for many reasons, have to reach into a past which is rather remote from present-day Shaba Swahili. The author's principal concern remains with a contemporary situation, namely the role of Swahili in the context of work, industrial, …
Out of Our Minds
Reason and Madness in the Exploration of Central Africa
Häftad, 2000
441 kr
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Explorers and ethnographers in Africa during the period of colonial expansion are usually assumed to have been guided by rational aims such as the desire for scientific knowledge, fame, or financial gain. This book, the culmination of many years of research on nineteenth-century exploration in …
Language and Colonial Power
The Appropriation of Swahili in the Former Belgian Congo 1880-1938
E-bok, 1991
518 kr
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In this study, inquiry will be directed to the past, and it will, for many reasons, have to reach into a past which is rather remote from present-day Shaba Swahili. The author's principal concern remains with a contemporary situation, namely the role of Swahili in the context of work, industrial, …
Anthropology with an Attitude
Critical Essays
Inbunden, 2002
1584 kr
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This book collects published and unpublished work over the last dozen years by one of today's most distinguished and provocative anthropologists. Johannes Fabian is widely known outside of his discipline because his work so often overcomes traditional scholarly boundaries to bring fresh insight to …
Anthropology with an Attitude
Critical Essays
Häftad, 2002
384 kr
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This book collects published and unpublished work over the last dozen years by one of today's most distinguished and provocative anthropologists. Johannes Fabian is widely known outside of his discipline because his work so often overcomes traditional scholarly boundaries to bring fresh insight to …
Moments of Freedom
Anthropology and Popular Culture
Häftad, 1998
373 kr
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In this volume, the author reflects on anthropological uses of the concept of popular culture. He retraces how his explorations of popular culture in the Shaba region of Zaire, now the Congo, showed that classical culture theory did not account for large aspects of contemporary African life.
Memory Against Culture
Arguments and Reminders
Inbunden, 2007
1235 kr
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In Memory against Culture, the renowned anthropologist Johannes Fabian assesses the contemporary practice of anthropology and its emerging shape as a global discipline. In twelve essays ranging from theoretical reflections to re-examinations of past ethnographic work, Fabian addresses central …
Memory Against Culture
Arguments and Reminders
Häftad, 2007
342 kr
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In Memory against Culture, the renowned anthropologist Johannes Fabian assesses the contemporary practice of anthropology and its emerging shape as a global discipline. In twelve essays ranging from theoretical reflections to re-examinations of past ethnographic work, Fabian addresses central …
Ethnography As Commentary
Writing from the Virtual Archive
Häftad, 2008
328 kr
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The Internet allows ethnographers to deposit the textual materials on which they base their writing in virtual archives. Electronically archived fieldwork documents can be accessed at any time by the writer, his or her readers, and the people studied. Johannes Fabian, a leading theorist of …
Talk about Prayer
An Ethnographic Commentary
Inbunden, 2015
551 kr
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Talk about Prayer is an experiment in writing ethnography, a commentary on a conversation with Mama Régine Tshitanda, the leader of a Charismatic prayer group (groupe de prière) in Lubumbashi (Katanga, Democratic Republic of the Congo) and members of her family in 1986.
Ethnography As Commentary
Writing from the Virtual Archive
Inbunden, 2008
1179 kr
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The Internet allows ethnographers to deposit the textual materials on which they base their writing in virtual archives. Electronically archived fieldwork documents can be accessed at any time by the writer, his or her readers, and the people studied. Johannes Fabian, a leading theorist of …
