Johannes Fabian Libros

Johannes Fabian takes an historical look at anthropology to demonstrate the emergence, transformation, and differentiation of uses of Time. Anthropological theory, from its beginnings in philosophy and linguistics, has provided Western thought and politics with deep-rooted images and convictions amounting to a kind of political cosmology. The anthropologists are 'here and now, ' the objects of their discourse are 'there and then, ' and the existence of the 'other'--the 'savage, ' the 'primitive, ' the 'underdeveloped' world--in the same time as ours is regularly denied. While written for the anthropologist, Time and the Other applies equally well to the fields of literary criticism, philosophy, and history.

This book collects published and unpublished work over the last dozen years by one of today’s most distinguished and provocative anthropologists.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 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 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.

Mit über 190 Fotografien unternehmen Karin Bauer und Johannes Fabian eine Zeitreise in den Arbeitsalltag Schmöllns. Die bekannten Autoren werfen einen Blick in die Fabriken, Industrie- und Handwerksbetriebe, Bildungseinrichtungen und Institutionen. Sie zeigen das emsige Streben all derer, die den Alltag der Stadt am Laufen hielten. Dieser Bildband ist ein Muss für alle Einwohner und Freunde Schmöllns.

Das Buch beleuchtet die koloniale Expansion in Afrika aus einer anderen Perspektive. Es zeigt, dass die Ethnographen oft unter dem Einfluss von Drogen, Alkohol und Aggressivität standen. Fabian präsentiert unbekannte Quellen und bietet neue Einsichten in den Kolonisationsprozess sowie in die Wurzeln und das Erbe der kulturanthropologischen Forschung.