Rethinking Ethnography in Central Europe

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vii

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2. Introduction: On Rethinking Ethnography in Central Europe: Toward Cosmopolitan Anthropologies in the “Peripheries”

   1. Introduction: On Rethinking Ethnography in Central Europe: Toward Cosmopolitan Anthropologies in the “Peripheries”

      • Michal Buchowski, Hana Cervinkova

      Pages 1-20

3. Mobilities

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 21-21

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   2. Othering the Self: National Identity and Social Class in Mobile Lives

      • Marek Pawlak

      Pages 23-40

   3. Renegotiating Symbolic Capital, Status, and Knowledge: Polish Physicians in Sweden

      • Katarzyna Wolanik Boström, Magnus Öhlander

      Pages 41-57

   4. Mobile Entrepreneurs: Transnational Vietnamese in the Czech Republic

      • Gertrud Hüwelmeier

      Pages 59-73

   5. Pavlivka Iodine Spring Water: Transnational Entrepreneurship in Post-Transition Contexts

      • Zdeněk Uherek, Veronika Beranská

      Pages 75-88

   6. Giving Birth in Berlin: Reproductive Experiences of Polish Migrant Women

      • Izabella Main

      Pages 89-111

4. Contesting Transition: Activisms and Expert Knowledge

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 113-113

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   2. New Urban Activism in Slovakia: The Case of Banská Bystrica

      • Alexandra Bitušíková

      Pages 115-130

   3. Feminist and Queer Sex Therapy: The Ethnography of Expert Knowledge of Sexuality in Poland

      • Agnieszka Kościańska

      Pages 131-145

   4. Civil Society and EU Integration of Serbia: Toward a Historical Anthropology of Globalizing Postsocialist Europe

      • Marek Mikuš

      Pages 147-171

5. Postsocialist Modernities

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 173-173

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   2. On the Road: Polish Modernization from the Perspective of the Anthropology of the Motorway

      • Waldemar Kuligowski, Agata Stanisz

      Pages 175-193

   3. Ethnography of Postsocialist Rural Change: Social Memory, Modernity, Local Empowerment, and Internal Displacement

      • Hana Horáková

      Pages 195-215

   4. Dalai-Lamaism: An Orientalist Construction of Postsocialist Consciousness

      • Martin Hříbek

      Pages 217-239

   5. Afterword

      • Michal Buchowski, Hana Cervinkova

      Pages 241-245

6. Back Matter

   Pages 247-267

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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 practices.

• Central Europe
• anthropology and ethnology
• postsocialism
• mobilities
• migrations
• European Union
• civil society
• Orientalism
• anthropology
• ethnography
• ethnology
• identity
• national identity
• society

“In addition to theories, this book informs us about anthropological methods. Several pieces enhance general findings with accounts of pertinent individual case studies. … Like many anthologies, this volume explores diverse subjects, rather than offering one comprehensive and unified text. As a whole, however, it offers its readers rich, overlapping experiences in two dynamic and colorful worlds. … Both vibrant worlds are skillfully portrayed as diverse and full of contrasts and tensions, achievements and challenges.” (Pamela Sour, pol-int.org, January, 2016)

Veronika Beranská, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Czech Republic Alexandra Bitu íková, Matej Bel University in Banska Bystricá, Slovakia Katarzyna Wolanik Boström, Umeå University, Sweden Michal Buchowski, Adam Mickiewicz University in Pozna?, Poland Hana Cervinkova, University of Lower Silesia, Poland Hana Horáková, Metropolitan University Prague, Czech Republic Martin H?íbek, Charles University, Czech Republic Gertrud Hüwelmeier, Humboldt-University Berlin, Germany Agnieszka Ko?cia?ska, University of Warsaw, Poland Waldemar Kuligowski, Adam Mickiewicz University in Pozna?, Poland Izabella Main, Adam Mickiewicz University in Pozna?, Poland Marek Miku , Comenius University, Slovakia Magnus Öhlander, Stockholm University, Sweden Marek Pawlak, Jagiellonian University, Poland Agata Stanisz, Adam Mickiewicz University in Pozna?, Poland Zden?k Uherek, Institute of Ethnology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic

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