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Book SynopsisAssesses the contemporary practice of anthropology and its emerging shape as a discipline across the globe. This title explores the place of linguistics in contemporary language-centered anthropology, and ponders how studies of material culture imbue objects with "otherness."
Trade Review“In these easy-reading conversational essays, studded with jewels of ethnographic provocation, Johannes Fabian continues his language-centered anthropological meditations on denials of recognition, the study of popular culture as recognition of Africa’s vigor and contemporaneity, and the pragmatics of speech: ‘Who can talk straight when even using Belgian rather than French ways of counting (“
septante-deux” not “
soixante-douze”) could be denounced as anti-revolutionary?’ Fabian’s focus on terms of encounter, the work of commentary, and Internet archiving as ethnographic collaboratories disturbs our pious conventions.”—Michael M. J. Fischer, author of
Emergent Forms of Life and the Anthropological Voice and
Mute Dreams, Blind Owls, and Dispersed Knowledges“Fabian’s work continues to invite the direction of critical thought towards aspects of ethnographic inquiry, to the co-production of knowledge, and to broader theoretical concerns in anthropology. This collection simultaneously serves to remind us of his intellectual contributions to anthropology, and to see these contributions as continuing and growing.” -- Katie Glaskin * Anthropological Forum *
Table of ContentsPreface 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
