Anthropology with an Attitude - Critical Essays

"[Anthropology with an Attitude] offers thoughtful and critical responses to important questions. . . . Highly recommended for libraries with graduate programs in anthropology."--Library Journal
"Neither positivist nor postmodernist, Johannes Fabian is an "anthropologist with an attitude" compounded, we might say, of dialectics, decency, and a trenchant sense of the absurd."--American Anthropologist

About the author

Johannes Fabian is Professor of Cultural Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam. Of his many books, the most recent is Out of Our Minds: Reason and Madness in the Exploration of Central Africa.

Summary

This text collects published and unpublished work by one of today's most distinguished anthropologists. Johannes Fabian is widely known outside of his discipline because his work so often overcomes traditional scholarly boundaries to bring fresh insight to philosophy, history and cultural studies.

Additional text

"Neither positivist nor postmodernist, Johannes Fabian is an "anthropologist with an attitude" compounded, we might say, of dialectics, decency, and a trenchant sense of the absurd."

Product details

• Authors: Johannes Fabian
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.10.2002
• EAN: 9780804741422
• ISBN: 978-0-8047-4142-2
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 179 mm x 223 mm x 21 mm
• Weight: 445 g
• Series: Cultural Memory in the Present; Cultural Memory in the Present Series; Cultural Memory in the Present
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology