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 Out of Our Minds: Reason and Madness in the Exploration of Central Africa; Moments of Freedom: Anthropology and Popular Culture; 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.
Preface ix
Part One: Anthropology at Large
1. World Anthropologies? 3
2. The Other Revisited 17
Part Two: Language, Time, Objects
3. Language and Time 33
4. If It Is Time--Can It Be Mapped? 43
5. On Recognizing Things 52
Part Three: Forgetting and Remembering
6. Forgetting Africa 65
7. Forgetful Remembering 77
8. Memory and Counter-Memory 92
9. History, Memory, Remembering 106
Part Four: Ethnography
10. Virtual Archives and Ethnographic Writing 121
11. Ethnography and Memory 132
12. Inquiry as Event 143
Notes 161
Bibliography 174
Index 187
