Johannes Fabian

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Johannes Fabian is affiliated with the following schools: University of Amsterdam, University of Chicago

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According to Wikipedia, Johannes Fabian is an emeritus professor of Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam. His ethnographic and historical research focuses on religious movements, language, work, and popular culture in the Shaba mining region of Zaire . His theoretical and critical work addresses questions of epistemology and history in anthropology, notably the influential book Time and the Other , which has become a classic in the field of anthropology.

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Johannes Fabian's Published Works

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Time and the Other: How Anthropology Makes Its Object (1983) (4085)
Power and performance : ethnographic explorations through proverbial wisdom and theater in Shaba, Zaire (1992) (205)
Language and Colonial Power: The Appropriation of Swahili in the Former Belgian Congo, 1880-1938 (1986) (166)
The Thick and the Thin: On the Interpretive Theoretical Program of Clifford Geertz [and Comments and Reply] (1984) (147)
Popular Culture in Africa: Findings and Conjectures (1978) (138)
Anthropology with an Attitude: Critical Essays (2001) (131)
Out of Our MindsReason and Madness in the Exploration of Central Africa (2000) (129)
Out of our mind : reason and madness in the exploration of Central Africa (2000) (124)
Time and the Work of Anthropology: Critical Essays, 1971-1991 (1991) (111)
Moments of Freedom: Anthropology and Popular Culture (1998) (103)
Remembering the Other: Knowledge and Recognition in the Exploration of Central Africa (1999) (80)
Missions and the Colonization of African Languages: Developments in the Former Belgian Congo (1983) (78)
Language, History and Anthropology (1971) (70)
Memory against Culture: Arguments and Reminders (2007) (69)
Remembering the Present: Painting and Popular History in Zaire (1996) (61)
Art, History, and Society: Popular Painting in Shaba, Zaire (1976) (54)
The other revisited (2006) (54)
Extraordinary Anthropology: Transformations in the Field (2007) (38)
Issues in the Ethics of Research Method: An Interpretation of the Anglo-American Perspective [and Comments and Reply] (1976) (36)
History from Below: The “Vocabulary of Elisabethville” by André Yav: Text, Translations and Interpretive Essay (1990) (33)
Cultural anthropology and the question of knowledge (2012) (25)
Virtual Archives and Ethnographic Writing (2002) (24)
Power and Performance: Ethnographic Explorations through Proverbial Wisdom and Theatre in Shaba, Zaire (1993) (23)
On Recognizing Things. The “Ethnic Artefact” and the “Ethnographic Object” (2004) (23)
Cultural Logic and Maya Identity. Rethinking constructivism and essentialism. Commentaries. Author's reply (1999) (22)
Theater and Anthropology, Theatricality and Culture (1999) (21)
Forgetful Remembering: A Colonial Life in the Congo (2003) (20)
Ethnography and intersubjectivity (2014) (19)
Six theses regarding the anthropology of African religious movements (1981) (18)
Time and the Work of Anthropology : Critical Essays 1971-1981 (2014) (18)
Thoughts on Anthropology Upon Reading Francis Galton's Narrative of an Explorer in Tropical South Africa (1853 (1987) (16)
Ethnography as Commentary: Writing from the Virtual Archive (2008) (14)
On Professional Ethics and Epistemological Foundations (1971) (12)
Power and Performance. Ethnographic Explorations through Proverbial Wisdom and Theatre in Shaba, Zaire (1992) (12)
Kazi : Conceptualizations of Labor in a Charismatic Movement among Swahili-Speaking Workers. (1973) (11)
Charisma and Cultural Change: The Case of the Jamaa Movement in Katanga (Congo Republic) (1969) (9)
Language on the road : notes on Swahili in two nineteenth century travelogues (1984) (9)
Out of our minds : reason and madness in the exploration of Central Africa : the Ad. E. Jensen lectures at the Frobenius Institut, University of Frankfurt (2001) (6)
History from below: The "Vocabulary of Elisabethville" (1991) (6)
CHARISMA, CANNABIS, AND THE CROSSING OF AFRICA (2000) (4)
Comments on “Changing global flows in anthropological knowledge“ (2012) (4)
Comments on "Of Mimicry and Membership" (2002) (4)
Accident and method in the study of intercultural communication: Colonial description os Swahili in the former Belgian Congo (1991) (3)
Lore and Doctrine: Some Observations on Storytellings in the Jamaa Movement in Shaba (Zaïre). (1977) (2)
CA✩ FORUM ON THEORY IN ANTHROPOLOGY (2007) (2)
Time, Narration, and the Exploration of Central Africa (2000) (2)
Linguistic Anthropology: On Language: The Diversity of Human Language‐Structure and Its Influence on the Mental Development of Mankind. Wilhelm von Humboldt (Peter Heath, trans.) (1990) (2)
What History for Which Africa ? (1986) (1)
Hanging without a Rope. MARY MARGARET STEEDLY (1996) (1)
Interpretation in Anthropology (2001) (1)
On Rappaport's Ecology, Meaning, and Religion (1982) (1)
The history of Zaire as told and painted by Tshibumba Kanda Matulu in conversation with (2006) (1)
On Recognizing Things (2004) (1)
theses regarding the anthropology of African religious movements [1981] (2014) (0)
Book review: Alban Bensa. 2006. La fin de l'exotisme. Toulouse: Anacharsis. pp. 368. ISBN: 2 914777 24 8. Price: £21 (2007) (0)
Commenting Kalundi's Comments: Notes on the Ethnography of Translating the 'Vocabulary of the town of Elisabethville' (2001) (0)
Silesian memories: on recognizing contemporary African culture (2010) (0)
Dalsgaard, Steffen & Morten Nielsen (eds) (afterword by George Marcus). Time and the field. vi, 160 pp., bibliogrs. Oxford, New York: Berghahn Books, 2015. £17.50 (paper): Book and film reviews (2017) (0)
Review Symposium (2008) (0)
The Times of the 'Vocabulaire': Commentary on a Conversation with Baba Ngoie Léon (2002) (0)
Naming Colonialism: history and collective memory in the Congo, 1870–1960 (review) (2010) (0)
Crossing And Patrolling: Thoughts On Anthropology And Boundaries (2021) (0)
Chapter 2. Painting, Talking, and Writing: The Making of the History of Zaire (1996) (0)
Society for the Anthropology of Europe: History, Memory, Remembering (2003) (0)
Ethnographic Sorcery (2008) (0)
History from below: The 'Vocabulary of Elisabethville' by André Yav: Text, Translations, and Interpretive Essay@@@History from below: The 'Vocabulary of Elisabethville' by Andre Yav: Text, Translations, and Interpretive Essay (1992) (0)
Osumaka Likaka, Naming Colonialism: history and collective memory in the Congo, 1870–1960. Madison WI: University of Wisconsin Press (pb $26.95 – 978 0 299 23364 8). 2009, 224 pp. (2010) (0)
Sameness and the ethnological will to meaning. Commentaries. Author's reply (1999) (0)
[Review of: H.G. West (2007) Ethnographic sorcery] (2008) (0)
Africanizing Anthropology: Fieldwork, Networks, and the Making of Cultural Knowledge in Central Africa:Africanizing Anthropology: Fieldwork, Networks, and the Making of Cultural Knowledge in Central Africa. (2002) (0)

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