This book collects published and unpublished work over the last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 central topics in
philosophy, history, and cultural studies.
The first part of the book addresses questions of current critical
concern: Does it still make sense to search for objectivity in
ethnography? What do we gain when we invoke "context" in our
interpretations? How does literacy change the work of the
ethnographer, and what are the boundaries between ethnology and
history? This part ends with a plea for recuperating negativity in
our thinking about culture.
The second part extends the work of critique into the past by
examining the beginning of modern ethnography in the exploration of
Central Africa during the late nineteenth century: the
justification of a scientific attitude, the collecting of
ethnographic objects, the presentation of knowledge in narration,
and the role of recognition--given or denied--in encounters with
Africans. A final essay examines how the Congolese have returned
the "imperial gaze" of Belgium by the work of critical memory in
popular history. The ten chapters are framed by two meditations on
the relevance of theory and the irrelevance of the millennium.
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