Rethinking Ethnography in Central Europe / edited by Hana Cervinkova, Micha? Buchowski, Zden?k Uherek.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cervinkova, Hana., Editor.

Buchowski, Micha?., Editor.

Uherek, Zden?k., Editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnology.

Race.

Anthropology.

Culture--Study and teaching.

Culture.

Ethnography.

Sociocultural Anthropology.

Race and Ethnicity Studies.

Cultural Studies.

Local Subjects:

Ethnography.

Sociocultural Anthropology.

Race and Ethnicity Studies.

Anthropology.

Cultural Studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (272 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2015.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In eleven ethnographic chapters of Rethinking Ethnography in Central Europe examines how issues of global economic and cultural dependencies, mobilities, citizens activism, social movements, and socio-political aspects of post-socialist modernities articulate on the level of everyday discourse and practices.

Contents:

On rethinking ethnography in Central Europe : Towards cosmopolitan anthropologies in the "peripheries" / Michal Buchowski and Hana Cervinkova

Othering the self : National identity and social class in mobile lives / Marek Pawlak

Re-negotiating symbolic capital, status, and knowledge : Polish physicians in Sweden / Katarzyna Wolanik Boström and Magnus Öhlander

Mobile entrepreneurs : Transnational Vietnamese in the Czech Republic / Gertrud Hüwelmeier

Pavlivka iodine spring water : Transnational entrepreneurship in post-transition contexts / Zdenek Uherek and Veronika Beranská

Giving birth in Berlin : Reproductive experiences of Polish migrant women / Izabella Main

New urban activism in Slovakia : The case of Banská Bystrica / Alexandra Bituiíková

Feminist and queer sex therapy : The ethnography of expert knowledge of sexuality in Poland / Agnieszka Koscianska

Civil society and EU integration of Serbia : Toward a historical anthropology of globalizing post-socialist Europe / Marek Mikus

On the road : Polish modernization from the perspective of the anthropology of the motorway / Waldemar Kuligowski and Agata Stanisz

Ethnography of post-socialist rural change : Social memory, modernity, local empowerment, and internal displacement / Hana Horáková

Dalai-Lamaism : An Orientalist construction of post-socialist consciousness / Martin Hríbek

Afterword / Michal Buchowski and Hana Cervinkova.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

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

ISBN:

9781137524492

1137524499