# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/johannes-fabian
# Generated: 2026-08-15T01:21:37.045Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/johannes-fabian"
name: "Johannes Fabian"
slug: "johannes-fabian"
description: "Johannes Fabian was a German anthropologist who was professor of anthropology at the University of Amsterdam. His ethnographic and historical research focuses on religious movements, language, work, and popular culture in the Shaba mining region of Zaire. His theoretical and critical work addresses questions of epistemology and history in anthropology, notably the influential book Time and the Other (1983), which has become a classic in the field of anthropology."
tagline: "German anthropologist"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Netherlands"
  isoCode: "NL"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1937-05-19"
deathDate: "2026-01-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.6
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.345249333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D0%B0%D0%B1%D0%B8%D0%B0%D0%BD%2C_%D0%99%D0%BE%D1%85%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%B5%D1%81"
    title: "Фабиан, Йоханнес"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B3_%D9%81%D8%A7%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "يوهانس فابيان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جوهانس فابيان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Fabian"
    title: "Johannes Fabian"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Fabian"
    title: "Johannes Fabian"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://jv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Fabian"
    title: "Johannes Fabian"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Fabian"
    title: "Johannes Fabian"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15641418"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump