Table of Contents

PART ONE Ethnography, Communication and Texts ONE Language, history and anthropology [1971] TWO Taxonomy and ideology [1975] THREE Genres in an emerging tradition [1974] FOUR Text as terror: second thoughts about charisma [1979] FIVE Rule and process [1979] PART TWO Anthropology of Religion and Colonial History SIX Six theses regarding the anthropology of African religious movements [1981] SEVEN Missions and the colonization of African languages: developments in the former Belgian Congo [1983] EIGHT Religious and secular colonization [1990] PART THREE How Anthropology Makes Its Object NINE H o w others die—reflections on the anthropology of death [1972] TEN Culture, time, and the object of anthropology [1985] ELEVEN Presence and representation [1990] TWELVE Of dogs alive, birds dead, and time to tell a story [1991] THIRTEEN Dilemmas of critical anthropology [1991]

About the Author

Johanne Fabian