Anthropology and Nostalgia

1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-78238-453-3
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 244 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 510 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Angé, Olivia

Berliner, David

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophische Anthropologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Angé, Olivia
After being a researcher at the University of Oxford and at Musée du Quai Branly, Olivia Angé is now a Marie Curie European Fellow at the Sociology of Development and Change Group at Wageningen University. Her fieldwork in the Andes mainly focuses on barter, ritual and cultural transmission.

Berliner, David
David Berliner is a Professor of Anthropology at Université Libre de Bruxelles. He has conducted ethnographic fieldwork in Guinea-Conakry and Laos. His topics of research are social memory, cultural transmission and the politics of heritage.

After being a researcher at the University of Oxford and at Musée du Quai Branly, Olivia Angé is now a Marie Curie European Fellow at the Sociology of Development and Change Group at Wageningen University. Her fieldwork in the Andes mainly focuses on barter, ritual and cultural transmission.