ISBN:
9781782384540
Language:
Undetermined
Pages:
244 p.
Edition:
1st edition
Keywords:
General Anthropology, Theory & Methodology in Anthropology
Abstract:
Nostalgia is intimately connected to the history of the social sciences in general and anthropology in particular, though finely grained ethnographies of nostalgia and loss are still scarce. Today, anthropologists have realized that nostalgia constitutes a fascinating object of study for exploring contemporary issues of the formation of identity in politics and history. Contributors to this volume consider the fabric of nostalgia in the fields of heritage and tourism, exile and diasporas, postcolonialism and postsocialism, business and economic exchange, social, ecological and religious movements, and nation building. They contribute to a better understanding of how individuals and groups commemorate their pasts, and how nostalgia plays a role in the process of remembering.
Description / Table of Contents:
List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Anthropology of Nostalgia-Anthropology as Nostalgia -- Olivia Angé and David Berliner -- Chapter 1. Are Anthropologists Nostalgist? -- David Berliner -- Chapter 2. Missing Socialism Again? The Malaise of Nostalgia in Post-Soviet Lithuania -- Gediminas Lankauskas -- Chapter 3. The Politics of Nostalgia in the Aftermath of Socialism's Collapse: A Case for Comparative Analysis -- Maya Nadkarni and Olga Shevchenko -- Chapter 4. Why Postimperial Trumps Postsocialist: Crying back the National Past in Hungary -- Chris Hann -- Chapter 5. Consuming Communism: Material Cultures of Nostalgia in Former East Germany -- Jonathan Bach -- Chapter 6. The Key from (to) Sepharad: Nostalgia for a Lost Country -- Joseph Josy Lévy and Inaki Olazabal -- Chapter 7. Nostalgia and the Discovery of Loss: Essentializing the Turkish Cypriot Past -- Rebecca Bryant -- Chapter 8. Social and Economic Performativity of Nostalgic Narratives in Andean Barter Fairs -- Olivia Angé -- Chapter 9. Wither Left-Wing Nostalgia -- Petra Rethmann -- Afterword: On Anthropology's Nostalgia: Looking Back/Seeing Ahead -- William Cunningham Bissell -- Notes on Contributors -- Index --
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