Moments of Freedom: Anthropology and Popular Culture

by Johannes Fabian

Book Overview

Johannes Fabian was one of the first anthropologists to introduce the concept of popular culture into the study of contemporary Africa. Drawing on his research in the Shaba region of Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of Congo), he has been writing for thirty years about the practices, beliefs, and objects that make up popular culture in an urban African setting: labor and language, religious movements, theater and storytelling, music and painting,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813917867
• ISBN13: 9780813917863
• Release Date: July 1998
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"