An Ethnographic Chiefdom : Epistemic Arrest and Knowledge Production in Czechoslovak Ethnography (1969-1989)

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.

• | Author: NIKOLA. BALAS
• | Publisher: Berghahn Books
• | Publication Date: Oct 01, 2024
• | Number of Pages: NA pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1805396749
• | ISBN-13: 9781805396741