Anthropology and nostalgia / edited by Olivia Angé and David Berliner ; contributors, Jonathan Bach [and eleven others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Angé, Olivia, editor.

Berliner, David, editor.

Jonathan Bach, contributor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nostalgia--Cross-cultural studies.

Nostalgia.

Nostalgia--Social aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (248 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn, 2015.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

Nostalgia is intimately connected to the history of the social sciences in general and anthropology in particular, though finely grained ethnographies of nostalgia and loss are still scarce. Today, anthropologists have realized that nostalgia constitutes a fascinating object of study for exploring contemporary issues of the formation of identity in politics and history. Contributors to this volume consider the fabric of nostalgia in the fields of heritage and tourism, exile and diasporas, postcolonialism and postsocialism, business and economic exchange, social, ecological and religious movem

Contents:

Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Are Anthropologists Nostalgist?; 2 Missing Socialism Again? The Malaise of Nostalgia in Post-Soviet Lithuania; 3 The Politics of Nostalgia in the Aftermath of Socialism's Collapse; 4 Why Post-imperial Trumps Post-socialist; 5 Consuming Communism ; 6 The Key from (to) Sefarad; 7 Nostalgia and the Discovery of Loss; 8 Social and Economic Performativity of Nostalgic Narratives in Andean Barter Fairs; 9 The Withering of Left-Wing Nostalgia?; Afterword; Notes on Contributors; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-83695-970-2

1-78238-454-5

OCLC:

892699641