Nascar Anthropology with an Attitude CRITICAL ESSAYS epmimy ue ym ASojodomuy | ——sCultural Memory in Z the Present Mieke Bal and Hent de Vries, Editors en carrey canna nme mes on a ANTHROPOLOGY WITH AN ATTITUDE Critical Essays Johannes Fabian STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS STANFORD, CALIFORNIA 2001a! stees of the versity of America on acid-free, archival-quality paper. ing-in-Publication Data itude : critical essays / Johannes Fabian. nory in the present) -ferences and index. aper) asp 0-8047-4143-3 (pbk. : alk. paper) phy. 2. Anthropology—Methodology. p. LTitle. IL Series. 2001032019 ar of this printing: 04 03 O02 OF 11/13.5 Adobe Garamond. To Contents L Preface Acknowledgments Prelude: With So Much Critique and Reflection Around, Who Needs Theory? PART I: CRITICAL CONCERNS Ethnographic Objectivity: From Rigor to Vigor : 2. Ethnographic Misunderstanding and the Perils of Context 3. Keep Listening: Ethnography and Reading I 4 5. . Ethnology and History Culture with an Attitude PART II: CRITICAL MEMORIES 6. Hindsight 7. Curios and Curiosity | 8. 9. Remembering the Other: Knowledge and Recognition Time, Narration, and the Exploration of Central Aftica zo. Africa’s Belgium Coda: Not in a Thousand Years: On the (Ir)relevance of the Millennium xiv 33 3 Jo 87 103 118 140 158 179 199