Anthropology in Postsocialist Europe
Антропология в постсоциалистической Европе
2012-03-23
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This chapter contains sections titled: The Ethnoanthropology of (Post)Socialism What Was Socialism? And What Is Postsocialism? Postsocialist Transformations Civil Society Property Relations Vanishing and Emerging Classes Transformations of Labor and Personhood Resistance Gender and Religion Memory and Nation Conclusion References
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It analyzes changes in labor and personhood alongside forms of resistance, and explores how gender and religion intersect with postsocialist processes.
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It frames postsocialism by interrogating definitions of 'socialism' and 'postsocialism' to ground ethnographic analysis.
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Memory and nation are treated as central lenses for understanding postsocialist social and cultural transformations.
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The chapter examines transformations in property relations and the simultaneous vanishing and emergence of social classes after socialism.
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The chapter maps core themes in postsocialist anthropology, including civil society, property relations, class changes, labor, personhood, resistance, gender, religion, memory, and nation.
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Anthropology of postsocialist Europe
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Transformations and social phenomena in postsocialist Europe including civil society, property relations, class change, labor and personhood, resistance, gender, religion, memory, and nationhood
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