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Focusing on a unique ethnographic approach, this work captures a conversation with Mama Régine Tshitanda, leader of a Charismatic prayer group in Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, in 1986. Through this dialogue, the author explores themes of faith, community, and the cultural significance of prayer within the context of Congolese society. The narrative intertwines personal insights and familial perspectives, offering a deeper understanding of the spiritual landscape in Katanga during that period.

Time and the Other is a classic work that critically reexamined the relationship between anthropologists and their subjects and reoriented the approach literary critics, philosophers, and historians took to the study of humankind. Johannes Fabian challenges the assumption that anthropologists live in the "here and now," that their subjects live in the "there and then," and that the "other" exists in a time not contemporary with our own. He also pinpoints the emergence, transformation, and differentiation of a variety of uses of time in the history of anthropology that set specific parameters between power and inequality. In this edition, a new postscript by the author revisits popular conceptions of the "other" and the attempt to produce and represent knowledge of other(s).

Assesses the contemporary practice of anthropology and its emerging shape as a discipline across the globe. This title explores the place of linguistics in contemporary language-centered anthropology, and ponders how studies of material culture imbue objects with otherness.

Exploring the intersection of popular culture and contemporary African life, Johannes Fabian examines urban practices, beliefs, and objects. He delves into various aspects such as labor, language, religious movements, and artistic expressions like theater, storytelling, music, and painting. Additionally, the work highlights grassroots literacy and historiography, offering a comprehensive look at how these elements shape cultural identity in urban settings.

Johannes Fabian takes an historical look at anthropology to demonstrate the emergence, transformation, and differentiation of uses of Time. Anthropological theory, from its beginnings in philosophy and linguistics, has provided Western thought and politics with deep-rooted images and convictions amounting to a kind of political cosmology. The anthropologists are 'here and now, ' the objects of their discourse are 'there and then, ' and the existence of the 'other'--the 'savage, ' the 'primitive, ' the 'underdeveloped' world--in the same time as ours is regularly denied. While written for the anthropologist, Time and the Other applies equally well to the fields of literary criticism, philosophy, and history.