An Ethnographic Chiefdom : Epistemic Arrest and Knowledge Production in Czechoslovak Ethnography (1969-1989) (Methodology & History in Anthropology) （Library Binding）

Balaš, Nikola

Berghahn Books（2024/10発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 356 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781805396741
• DDC分類 305.800710437

Full Description

The Czechoslovak academic discipline called 'Ethnography and Folklore Studies' was impacted and influenced by the daily realities of state socialism in 1969-1989. This book examines the role of the planned economy, Marxist-Leninist ideology, disciplinary hierarchies and clientelist networks, ultimately showing how state socialist features together brought about the discipline's epistemic stalling. It offers a fresh perspective on the long-standing debates purporting to capture the differences between the Central and Eastern European tradition of ethnology and Western sociocultural anthropology.

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Part I

Chapter 1. Preliminaries

Chapter 2. Bourdieu in Czechoslovakia

Chapter 3. Ethnography and Folklore Studies as an Intellectual Tradition

Chapter 4. From 1948 to 1968          

Part II

Chapter 5. The Ethnographic Chiefdom

Chapter 6. Being an Ethnographer‾

Chapter 7. Attitudes to Writing and the Publishing Process

Chapter 8. Epistemic Arrest and the Culture of Contention

Part III

Conclusion

Appendices

Appendix I: The Heads of Czech and Moravian Ethnography Institutions

Appendix II: Czech Translations of Anthropological Works

References

Index