Anthropology with an attitude : critical essays / Johannes Fabian.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fabian, Johannes

Series:

Cultural memory in the present

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anthropology--Philosophy.

Anthropology.

Anthropology--Methodology.

Anthropology--Authorship.

Physical Description:

xiv, 256 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2001.

Summary:

This book collects published and unpublished work over the last dozen years by one of today' s most distinguished and provocative anthopologists. Johannes Fabian is widely known outside of his discipline because his work so often overcomes traditional scholarly boundaries to bring fresh insight to central topics in philosophy, history, and cultural studies.

Contents:

Prelude: With So Much Critique and Reflection Around, Who Needs Theory? 1

Part I Critical Concerns

1. Ethnographic Objectivity: From Rigor to Vigor 11

2. Ethnographic Misunderstanding and the Perils of Context 33

3. Keep Listening: Ethnography and Reading 53

4. Ethnology and History 70

5. Culture with an Attitude 87

Part II Critical Memories

6. Hindsight 103

7. Curios and Curiosity 118

8. Time, Narration, and the Exploration of Central Africa 140

9. Remembering the Other: Knowledge and Recognition 158

10. Africa's Belgium 179

Coda: Not in a Thousand Years: On the (Ir)relevance of the Millennium 199.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0804741425

0804741433

OCLC:

46792987