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.
| ISBN: | 9780813917863 |
| Publication date: | 30th July 1998 |
| Author: | Johannes Fabian |
| Publisher: | University of Virginia Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 172 pages |
| Series: | Page-Barbour Lecture |
| Genres: |
Anthropology Cultural studies |