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OverviewThe Czechoslovak academic discipline called ‘Ethnography and Folklore Studies’ was impacted and influenced by the daily realities of state socialism in 1969–1989. This book examines the role of the planned economy, Marxist–Leninist ideology, disciplinary hierarchies and clientelist networks, ultimately showing how state socialist features together brought about the discipline’s epistemic stalling. It offers a fresh perspective on the long-standing debates purporting to capture the differences between the Central and Eastern European tradition of ethnology and Western sociocultural anthropology. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Nikola BalašPublisher: Berghahn Books Imprint: Berghahn Books ISBN: 9781805396741ISBN 10: 1805396749 Pages: 356 Publication Date: 01 October 2024 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction Part I Chapter 1. Preliminaries Chapter 2. Bourdieu in Czechoslovakia Chapter 3. Ethnography and Folklore Studies as an Intellectual Tradition Chapter 4. From 1948 to 1968 Part II Chapter 5. The Ethnographic Chiefdom Chapter 6. Being an Ethnographer~ Chapter 7. Attitudes to Writing and the Publishing Process Chapter 8. Epistemic Arrest and the Culture of Contention Part III Conclusion Appendices Appendix I: The Heads of Czech and Moravian Ethnography Institutions Appendix II: Czech Translations of Anthropological Works References IndexReviews“The book is clearly organized and the presentation maintains a high standard throughout. It is an original reappraisal of late socialist ‘ethnography’ in Prague.” • Chris Hann, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology “This book is an innovative contribution to the history and theory of anthropology. It is an impressive piece of work that introduces a difficult subject in clear prose, is very well written, well composed and with a strong theoretical argument.” • Han F. Vermeulen, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology Author InformationNikola Balaš is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute of Ethnology of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague. He spent a year as an Erasmus student at the Department of Anthropology, Durham University (UK), and is a co-recipient of the SIEF Young Scholar Prize 2023. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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