Johannes Fabian

Ethnography as Commentary

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Produktbeschreibung

Leading anthropologist reconsiders his notes and interviews from his fieldwork in the Congo in order to comment on ethnographic practices.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 152
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. August 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 160mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 318g
• ISBN-13: 9780822342618
• ISBN-10: 0822342618
• Artikelnr.: 23880994

Autorenporträt

Johannes Fabian is Professor Emeritus of Cultural Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam and a member of the Amsterdam School of Social Research. He is the author of many books, including Memory against Culture: Arguments and Reminders, also published by Duke University Press; Out of Our Minds: Reason and Madness in the Exploration of Central Africa; Remembering the Present: Painting and Popular History in Zaire; Language and Colonial Power: The Appropriation of Swahili in the Former Belgian Congo, 1880–1938; and Time and the Other: How Anthropology Makes Its Object .

Inhaltsangabe

Preface vii
Introduction. Closing House--A Late Ethnography 1
Chapter 1. An Event: Closing the House 21
Chapter 2. A Text: Made, Not Found 39
Chapter 3. Kahenga's Work 55
Chapter 4. Kahenga's World 73
Chapter 5. Kahenga's Thoughts 91
Chapter 6. Endings and Ends 111
Notes 125
Works Cited 133
Index 137