Moments of Freedom - Anthropology and Popular Culture

In Moments of Freedom, Johannes Fabian, one of the first anthropologists to introduce the concept of popular culture into the study of contemporary Africa, reflects on the practices, beliefs, and objects that make up the concept in an urban African setting: labor and language, religious movements, theater and storytelling, music and painting, grassroots literacy and historiography.

About the author

Johannes Fabian is Chair of the Cultural Anthropology Department at the University of Amsterdam and the author of numerous books, most recently Remembering the Present: Painting and Popular History in Zaire.

Summary

In this volume, the author reflects on anthropological uses of the concept of popular culture. He retraces how his explorations of popular culture in the Shaba region of Zaire, now the Congo, showed that classical culture theory did not account for large aspects of contemporary African life.

Product details

• Authors: Johannes Fabian
• Publisher: University Press of Virginia
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.1998
• EAN: 9780813917863
• ISBN: 978-0-8139-1786-3
• No. of pages: 192
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 11 mm
• Weight: 287 g
• Series: Page-Barbour Lectures; Page-Barbour Lectures; Page-Barbour Lecture
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)