EAN: 9783898216067

CHANGES IN THE HEART OF EUROPE - TIMOTHY MCCAJO...

From WW II until the Velvet Revolution  few outside anthropologists had access to
Czechoslovakia  while only a handful of Czech and Slovak ethnologists published in Western
journals. In recent years  anthropological interest in Slovakia and the Czech Republic has
increased substantially. This volume brings together a broad sample of recent cutting-edge
ethnographic studies by Czech and Slovak ethnographers as well as American and western European
anthropologists. Contents: Raymond June on measuring corruption in Czech society  David
Karjanen on structural violence and economic change in Slovakia  Karen Kapusta-Pofahl  Hana
HaSková  and Marta Koláová on women's civic organizing  Rebecca Nash on Czech feelings about
social support and welfare reform  Denise Kozikowski on women's experience of breast cancer 
Vra Sokolová on population policy and the sterilization of Romani women in Czechoslovakia 
1972-1989  James Quin on pornography and the commodification of queer bodies in Slovakia  Ben
Hill Passmore on working women in a Moravian factory  Krista Hegburg on Roma social workers 
Zdenk Uherek and Kateina Plochová on ethnic Czechs in Bosnia and Herzegovina  LeoS satava on
ethnic identity and language among Sorbian youth  Haldis Haukanes on history and autobiography
in a Czech village  Davide Torsello on memory  geography  and local history in southern
Slovakia  Peter Skalník reviews Czech and Slovak community (re)studies in a European context.
Afterword by Zdenk Salzmann.

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