How Long to Read Remembering the Present

How Long Does it Take to Read Remembering the Present?

It takes the average reader 6 hours and 35 minutes to read Remembering the Present by Johannes Fabian

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

This book combines ethnography with the study of art to present a fascinating new vision of African history. It contains the paintings of a single artist depicting Zaire's history, along with a series of ethnographic essays discussing local history, its complex relationship to forms of self-expression and self-understanding, and the aesthetics of contemporary urban African and Third World societies. As a collaboration between ethnographer and painter, this innovative study challenges text-oriented approaches to understanding history and argues instead for an event- and experience-oriented model, ultimately adding a fresh perspective to the discourse on the relationship between modernity and tradition. During the 1970s, Johannes Fabian encouraged Tshibumba Kanda Matulu to paint the history of Zaire. The artist delivered the work in batches, together with an oral narrative. Fabian recorded these statements along with his own question-and-answer sessions with the painter. The first part of the book is the complete series of 100 paintings, with excerpts from the artist's narrative and the artist-anthropologist dialogues. Part Two consists of Fabian's essays about this and other popular painting in Zaire. The essays discuss such topics as performance, orality, history, colonization, and popular art.

How long is Remembering the Present?

Remembering the Present by Johannes Fabian is 392 pages long, and a total of 98,784 words.

This makes it 132% the length of the average book. It also has 121% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Remembering the Present Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 8 hours and 59 minutes to read Remembering the Present aloud.

What Reading Level is Remembering the Present?

Remembering the Present is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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