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Altering States: Ethnographies of Transition in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union
ISBN: 9780472086177 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The dominant focus in transition studies to date has been on economic and political factors--analyses generally conducted at the national or international level. The essays in Altering States instead bring us a closer look at what has been happening in everyday life in urban contexts in Germany, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Austria, Hungary, Romania, Armenia, and Russia.
The contributors to the volume--all anthropologists--use ethnographic methods to make visible problems and challenges that have until now been obscured. From synagogue restoration in Eastern Europe to gay tourism... The dominant focus in transition studies to date has been on economic and political factors--analyses generally conducted at the national or internati...
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172,77 zł |
On the Social Life of Postsocialism: Memory, Consumption, Germany
ISBN: 9780253221704 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. Anthropologist Daphne Berdahl was one of the leading scholars of the transition from state socialism to capitalism in central and eastern Europe. From her pathbreaking ethnography of a former East German border village in the aftermath of German reunification, to her insightful analyses of consumption, nostalgia, and citizenship in the early 21st century, Berdahl's writings probe the contradictions, paradoxes, and ambiguities of postsocialism as few observers have done. This volume brings together her essays, from an early study of memory at the Vietnam War memorial in Washington, D.C., to... Anthropologist Daphne Berdahl was one of the leading scholars of the transition from state socialism to capitalism in central and eastern Europe. F... |
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108,10 zł |
Where the World Ended: Re-Unification and Identity in the German Borderland
ISBN: 9780520214774 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 307 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. When the Berlin Wall fell, people who lived along the dismantled border found their lives drastically and rapidly transformed. Daphne Berdahl, through ongoing ethnographic research in a former East German border village, explores the issues of borders and borderland identities that have accompanied the many transitions since 1990. What happens to identity and personhood, she asks, when a political and economic system collapses overnight? How do people negotiate and manipulate a liminal condition created by the disappearance of a significant frame of reference? Berdahl concentrates...
When the Berlin Wall fell, people who lived along the dismantled border found their lives drastically and rapidly transformed. Daphne Berdahl, through...
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140,60 zł |