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Anthropology With an Attitude:

Critical Essays
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Stanford University Press, 2001 - Social Science - 256 pages
This book collects published and unpublished work over the last dozen years by one of today's most distinguished and provocative anthropologists.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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This collection of essays is not for the timid or the traditionalist. It presupposes considerable knowledge of philosophy and history as well as anthropology, but for those with the background (or the ... Read full review

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Contents

With So Much Critique
1
From Rigor to Vigor
11
Ethnographic Misunderstanding and the Perils of Context
33
Ethnography and Reading
53
Ethnology and History
70
Culture with an Attitude
87
Hindsight
103
Curios and Curiosity
118
Time Narration and the Exploration of Central Africa
140
Knowledge and Recognition
158
Africas Belgium
179
of the Millennium
199
Notes
207
Index
249
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About the author (2001)

Johannes Fabian is Professor of Cultural Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam. Of his many books, the most recent is Out of Our Minds: Reason and Madness in the Exploration of Central Africa.

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TitleAnthropology With an Attitude: Critical Essays
Cultural Memory in the Present
AuthorJohannes Fabian
Editionrevised
PublisherStanford University Press, 2001
ISBN0804741433, 9780804741439
Length256 pages
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