Rethinking Ethnography in Central Europe.

Rethinking Ethnography in Central Europe.

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 p...

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Main Author: Cervinkova, Hana
Other Authors: Buchowski, Micha?, Uherek, Zden?k
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : Springer Science and Business Media : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
Subjects:
Ethnology > Europe, Central > Case studies.
East Europeans > Europe, Western > Social conditions > Case studies.
Post-communism > Europe, Eastern > Case studies.
Europe, Central > Social conditions > 21st centruy > Case studies.
Case studies.
Online Access:CONNECT
Table of 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.

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