Jamaa: A Charismatic Movement in Katanga

https://www.amazon.com/Jamaa-Charismatic-Movement-Johannes-Fabian/dp/0810103397/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Jamaa%3A+A+Charismatic+Movement+in+Katanga&qid=1577695009&s=books&sr=1-1

1971

Time and the Other: How Anthropology Makes Its Object

(Fabian's study is a classic in the field that changed the...)

Fabian's study is a classic in the field that changed the way anthropologists relate to their subjects and is of immense value not only to anthropologists but to all those concerned with the study of man. A new foreward by Matti Bunzl brings the influence of Fabian's study up to the present. Time and the Other is a critique of the notions that anthropologists are "here and now," their objects of study are "there and then," and that the "other" exists in a time not contemporary with our own.

https://www.amazon.com/Time-Other-Anthropology-Makes-Object/dp/0231125771/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Time+and+the+Other%3A+How+Anthropology+Makes+Its+Object&qid=1577695121&s=books&sr=1-1

1983

Language on the Road: Notes on Swahili in Two Nineteenth Century Travelogues

(Much remains to be learnt from that period when colonies ...)

Much remains to be learnt from that period when colonies were still small and mobile and were called expeditions. Because expeditions were so manifestly concerned with movement in geographical space little attention has been given to the penetration of 'cognitive space'. The ways and means by which European travelers of the 19th century gained access to information other than what could be observed, sampled, and measured remain obscure. What exactly were the channels and vehicles by which knowledge of African societies and cultures crossed, as it were, the frontiers? Language, spoken and written, is the obvious answer to that question. Explorers not only walked; they talked their way into 'hostile Africa'. As soon as they began to compile manuals for other travelers they included, apart from advice on hygiene, equipment and the cost of services and trade goods, 'useful vocabularies'. These wordlists were as numerous as they were fragmentary.

https://www.amazon.com/Language-Road-Nineteenth-Travelogues-Geschichte/dp/3871186716/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Language+on+the+Road%3A+Notes+on+Swahili+in+Two+Nineteenth-Century+Travelogues&qid=1577695195&s=books&sr=1-1

1985

Language and Colonial Power: The Appropriation of Swahili in the Former Belgian Congo, 1880-1938

(Among the preconditions for establishing colonial authori...)

Among the preconditions for establishing colonial authority was communication with the colonised. Verbal exchanges depended on a shared communicative praxis providing common ground on which unilateral claims could be imposed. Use of, and control over, verbal means of communication were needed to maintain regimes - military, religious-ideological, economic - in power. In the Belgian Congo brutal physical force never ceased to be exercised. In this study Professor Fabian examines the more subtle uses of power through controls on communication, by looking at the history of Swahili as it spread from the East Coast to Central Africa and demonstrating connections between -changing forms of colonial power and the development of policies towards Swahili. Using a wide range of sources, including numerous and sometimes obscure vocabularies, he combines concepts derived from literary theory and sociolinguistics to uncover, through the flaws and failures of these texts, deep-seated attitudes to language and communication.

https://www.amazon.com/Language-Colonial-Power-Appropriation-1880-1938/dp/0521308704/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Language+and+Colonial+Power%3A+The+Appropriation+of+Swahili+in+the+Former+Belgian+Congo%2C+1880-1938&qid=1577695289&s=books&sr=1-1

1986

History from Below: The "Vocabulary of Elisabethville" by André Yav: Text, Translations and Interpretive Essay

(Johannes Fabian with assistance from Kalundi Mango (Admin...)

Johannes Fabian with assistance from Kalundi Mango (Administrator, National Museum of Zaire) and with linguistic notes by Walter Schicho (University of Vienna). An extraordinary linguistic and sociopolitical document, this is a history of colonization written by the colonized, about the colonized, and for the colonized. The original text, a history of what is now Lubumbashi in the Shaba region of Zaire, is reproduced in exact facsimile in Part 1. The period covered is from the beginning of Belgian colonization to 1965. The text was commissioned by an association of former domestic servants and written, or compiled, by one Andre Yav. The facsimile text is followed by linguistic notes (provided by W. Schicho) on the variety of Swahili used by the author. In Part 2 this amazing document is twice translated: first, into an oralized' version in current Shaba Swahili and, second, into English. Numerous historical and linguistic notes make the text accessible to the non-specialist. While Parts 1 and 2 are of particular interest to linguists, Part 3 covers a wider area of intellectual concerns. It is an essay analyzing the social conditions, literary means and political purposes and importance of the history. Of interest to linguists, historians, sociologists and political scientists.

https://www.amazon.com/History-Below-Elisabethville-Translations-Interpretive/dp/155619160X/ref=sr_1_fkmr2_1?keywords=History+from+Below%3A+The+%E2%80%9CVocabulary+of+Elisabeth-+ville%22+by+Andr%C3%A9+Yav%3B+Texts%2C+Translation%2C+and+Interpretive+Essaw&qid=1577695339&s=books&sr=1-1-fkmr2

1990

Power and Performance: Ethnographic Explorations Through Proverbial Wisdom and Theater in Shaba, Zaire

https://www.amazon.com/Power-Performance-Ethnographic-Explorations-Anthropological/dp/0299125106/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Power+and+Performance%3A+Ethnographic+Explorations+through+Proverbial+Wisdom+and+Theater+in+Shaba+%28Zaire%29&qid=1577695705&s=books&sr=1-1

1990

Time and the Work of Anthropology: Critical Essays 1971-1981

(The development of the dialogical approach, the autobiogr...)

The development of the dialogical approach, the autobiographical perspective and the central role of text-interpretation are all seen as characteristics of post-modern ethnography, arising from the daily chores of field research. The breakthrough into time and history, away from the timeless theorizing of structuralism and functionalism, is seen as inevitable when anthropology is forced to think about its own epistemology. Another current concern is taken up with reflections on the politics of representing the other. In the later essays, he opposes post-modern fashions and re-asserts the need to continue with a truly critical agenda.

https://www.amazon.com/Time-Work-Anthropology-Critical-1971-1981-ebook/dp/B00HUTR8WW/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Time+and+the+Work+of+Anthropology%3A+Critical+Essays%2C+1971-1991&qid=1577696211&s=books&sr=1-1

1991

Remembering the Present: Painting and Popular History in Zaire

(During the 1970s, Johannes Fabian encouraged Tshibumba Ka...)

During the 1970s, Johannes Fabian encouraged Tshibumba Kanda Matulu to paint the history of Zaire. The artist delivered the work in batches, together with an oral narrative. Fabian recorded these statements along with his own question-and-answer sessions with the painter. The first part of the book is the complete series of 100 paintings, with excerpts from the artist's narrative and the artist-anthropologist dialogues. Part Two consists of Fabian's essays about this and other popular painting in Zaire. The essays discuss such topics as performance, orality, history, colonization, and popular art.

https://www.amazon.com/Remembering-Present-Painting-Popular-History/dp/0520203763/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Remembering+the+Present%3A+Painting+and+Popular+History+in+Zaire&qid=1577700499&s=books&sr=1-1

1996

Moments of Freedom: Anthropology and Popular Culture

(Johannes Fabian was one of the first anthropologists to i...)

Johannes Fabian was one of the first anthropologists to introduce the concept of popular culture into the study of contemporary Africa. Drawing on his research in the Shaba region of Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of Congo), he has been writing for thirty years about the practices, beliefs, and objects that make up popular culture in an urban African setting: labor and language, religious movements, theater and storytelling, music and painting, grassroots literacy and historiography. In Moments of Freedom Fabian reflects on anthropological uses of the concept of popular culture. He retraces how his explorations of popular culture in this urban-industrial setting showed that classiclal culture theory did not account for large aspects of contemporary African life. Popular culture draws on various genres of representation and performance, and Fabian explores the notion of genre itself as it applies to Shaba religious discourse, painting, and the theater. He also addresses the element of time and how spatial thinking about culture, ethnicity, and globalization acts as an obstacle to appreciating the contemporaneity of African popular culture. The volume ends with a discussion of contestation in light of current calls for democratization. In Moments of Freedom, Johannes Fabian takes stock of decades of anthropological work on popular culture and examines the development of his own thought over time. Throughout the volume, he makes eloquent connections to other firelds such as history, folklore studies, and cultural studies, suggesting areas for further research in each.

https://www.amazon.com/Moments-Freedom-Anthropology-Page-Barbour-Lectures/dp/0813917859/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Moments+of+Freedom%3A+Anthropology+and+Popular+Culture&qid=1577700691&s=books&sr=1-1

1998

Out of Our Minds: Reason and Madness in the Exploration of Central Africa

(Drawing on travel accounts - most of them Belgian and Ger...)

Drawing on travel accounts - most of them Belgian and German - published between 1878 and the start of World War I, Fabian describes encounters between European travelers and the Africans they met. He argues that the loss of control experienced by these early travelers actually served to enhance cross-cultural understanding, allowing the foreigners to make sense of strange facts and customs. Fabian's provocative findings contribute to a critique of narrowly scientific or rationalistic visions of ethnography, illuminating the relationship between travel and intercultural understanding, as well as between imperialism and ethnographic knowledge.

https://www.amazon.com/Out-Our-Minds-Madness-Exploration/dp/0520221230/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Out+of+Our+Minds%3A+Reason+and+Madness+in+the+Exploration+of+Central+Africa&qid=1577700796&s=books&sr=1-1

2000

Anthropology with an Attitude: Critical Essays

(This book collects published and unpublished work over th...)

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.

https://www.amazon.com/Anthropology-Attitude-Critical-Cultural-Present/dp/0804741425/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Anthropology+with+an+Attitude%3A+Critical+Essays&qid=1577700905&s=books&sr=1-1

2001

Memory against Culture: Arguments and Reminders

(In Memory against Culture, the renowned anthropologist Jo...)

In Memory against Culture, the renowned anthropologist Johannes Fabian assesses the contemporary practice of anthropology and its emerging shape as a global discipline. In twelve essays ranging from theoretical reflections to re-examinations of past ethnographic work, Fabian addresses central theoretical debates within the discipline and throughout the social sciences—about language and time, history and memory, and ethnography and recognition. Together the essays illuminate Fabian’s pluralist vision of an anthropology that always makes the other present by opening itself to conversational and transnational practices, refusing epistemological claims that privilege any one voice, language, or point of view.

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2007

Ethnography as Commentary: Writing from the Virtual Archive

(In his commentary, Fabian reconstructs his meeting with t...)

In his commentary, Fabian reconstructs his meeting with the healer Kahenga Mukonkwa Michel, in which the two discussed the ritual that Kahenga performed to protect Fabian’s home from burglary. Fabian reflects on the expectations and terminology that shape his description of Kahenga’s ritual and meditates on how ethnographic texts are made, considering the settings, the participants, the technologies, and the linguistic medium that influence the transcription and translation of a recording and thus fashion ethnographic knowledge. Turning more directly to Kahenga - as a practitioner, a person, and an ethnographic subject - and to the questions posed to him, Fabian reconsiders questions of ethnic identity, politics, and religion. While Fabian hopes that emerging anthropologists will share their fieldwork through virtual archives, he does not suggest that traditional ethnography will disappear. It will become part of a broader project facilitated by new media.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00EE5O62U/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_taft_p1_i7

2008