An ethnographic chiefdom epistemic arrest and knowledge production in Czechoslovak ethnography (1969-1989) / Nikola Balaš.
| Author/creator | Balaš, Nikola |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | New York : Berghahn Books, 2025. |
| Description | ix, 345 pages 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
| Subjects |
| Series | Methodology and history in anthropology ; volume 49 |
| Contents | Preliminaries -- Bourdieu in Czechoslovakia -- Ethnography and folklore studies as an intellectual tradition -- From 1948 to 1968 -- The ethnographic chiefdom -- Being an ethnographer -- Attitudes to writing and the publishing process -- Epistemic arrest and the culture of contention -- Conclusion -- Appendix I: The heads of Czech and Moravian ethnography institutions -- Appendix II: Czech translations of anthropological works. |
| Abstract | "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"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2024017879 |
| ISBN | 9781805396741 hardback |
| ISBN | epub |
| ISBN | adobe pdf |
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