CZS05 Cultural Anthropology of Post-Socialism

Pan-university studies
Spring 2009
Extent and Intensity
2/0. 8 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
Miklós Vörös, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
PhDr. Thomas Donaldson Sparling, B.A.
Pan-university studies
Contact Person: Mgr. Martin Vašek
Timetable
Thu 26. 3. 15:00–19:30 U34, Thu 9. 4. 15:00–19:30 U34, Thu 23. 4. 15:00–19:30 U34, Thu 7. 5. 15:00–19:30 U34
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.

The capacity limit for the course is 25 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/25, only registered: 0/25
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
This course gives an overview of the major themes and paradigms in cultural anthropological research on late-state-socialist and post-socialist societies. Thus it focuses both on the palette of various fields that have been seen as specific to the region, as well as on the important shifts of attention from one topic to another over the course of the past two decades. The format of the course is a combination of introductory lectures and reading seminars; students will be encouraged to read both classic and innovative ethnographies as well as theoretical syntheses of the relevant literature, and be prepared to give concise presentations on them. The course meets six times this fall: 6 October 2006,10 november 2006, 1.12. 2006, 15.12. 2006.
Syllabus
  • 1. Anthropologists and Native Ethnographers in Central European Villages by Tamas Hofer 2. Anthropology of Eastern Europe by Joel Martin Halpern & David A. Kideckel 3. Distinguisehd Lecture: Anthropology and the Theoretical and Paradigmatic Significance by Marvin Harris 4. Is There an Anthropology of Socialism? by Steven Sampson 5. Theorizing Socialism: A Prologue to the Transition by Katherine Verdery 6. Homecoming: Affairs of Anthropologists in and of Eastern Europe by Laszlo Kurti 7. Cultures and Communities in the Anthropology of Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union by Thomas C. Wolfe 8. The Socialist Transformation of Agriculture in a Romanian Commune 1945-62 by David A. Kideckel 9. Mythologies of Work: A Comparison of Firms in State Socialism and Advanced Capitalism by Michael Burawoy & Janos Lukacs 10. The Second Economy of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe by Steven Sampson 11. Pigs, Party Secretaries, and Private Lives in Hungary by Martha Lampland 12. Samovars and Sex on Turkeys Russian Markets by Chris Hann & Ildiko Hann 13. Icebergs, Barter, and the Mafia in Provincial Russia by Caroline Humphrey 14. Patterns of Reinterpretation: Trader-Tourism in the Balkans (Bulgaria) as a Picaresque Metaphorical Enactment of Post-Totalitarianism by Yulian Konstantinov 15. Bartoks Funeral: Representations of Europe in Hungarian Political Rhetoric by Susan Gal 16. Uniting the German Nation: Law, Narrative, and Historicity by John Borneman 17. Metaphors of the Natural and the artificial in Czech Political Discourse by Ladislav Holy 18. Dismembering Yugoslavia: Nationalist Ideologies and the Symbolic Revival of Genocide by Bette Denich 19. Imagined Communities and Real Victims: Self-Determination and Ethnic Cleansing in Yugoslavia By Robert M. Hayden 20. Postsocialist Nationalism: Rediscovering the Past in Southeast Poland by Chris Hann 21. Without a Concept ? Race as Discursive Practise by Alaina Lemon
Language of instruction
English
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2005, Autumn 2006, Autumn 2007, Spring 2008, Autumn 2008, Autumn 2009, Spring 2010, Autumn 2010, Spring 2011, Autumn 2011, Autumn 2012, Autumn 2013, Autumn 2014, Autumn 2015.
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