Memory against Culture: Arguments and Reminders

"In these easy-reading conversational essays, studded with jewels of ethnographic provocation, Johannes Fabian continues his language-centered anthropological meditations on denials of recognition, the study of popular culture as recognition of Africa's vigor and contemporaneity, and the pragmatics of speech: 'Who can talk straight when even using Belgian rather than French ways of counting (""septante-deux"" not ""soixante-douze"") could be denounced as anti-revolutionary?' Fabian's focus on terms of encounter, the work of commentary, and Internet archiving as ethnographic collaboratories disturbs our pious conventions."--Michael M. J. Fischer, author of "Emergent Forms of Life and the Anthropological Voice" and "Mute Dreams, Blind Owls, and Dispersed Knowledges"Johannes Fabian is the author of 'Memory against Culture: Arguments and Reminders', published 2007 under ISBN 9780822340560 and ISBN 0822340569.