An Ethnographic Chiefdom

Epistemic Arrest and Knowledge Production in Czechoslovak Ethnography (1969–1989)

Nikola Balaš (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

356 Seiten

2024
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80539-674-1 (ISBN)

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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.

Nikola Balaš is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute of Ethnology of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague. He spent a year as an Erasmus student at the Department of Anthropology, Durham University (UK), and is a co-recipient of the SIEF Young Scholar Prize 2023.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	10.09.2024
Reihe/Serie	Methodology & History in Anthropology
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
ISBN-10	1-80539-674-9 / 1805396749
ISBN-13	978-1-80539-674-1 / 9781805396741
Zustand	Neuware