UID:
almahu_9949700928202882
Format:
1 online resource (xiii, 217 pages)
ISBN:
9789004328648
Series Statement:
Central and Eastern Europe : regional perspectives in global context ; v. 7
Content:
In Symbolic Traces of Communist Legacy in Post-socialist Hungary , Lisa Pope Fischer shows how personal practices symbolically refurbish elements from the Communist era to fit present-day challenges. A generation who lived through the socialist period adapt to post-socialist Hungary in a global context. Life histories weave together case studies of gift giving, procurement strategies, harvest ritual, healthcare, and socialist kitsch to illustrate turns towards mysticism, neo-traditionalism, nostalgia, nationalism, and shifts in time-place. People's unrequited past longing for future possibilities of a Western society facilitate desires for a lost way of life. Not only does this work gain understanding of an aging population's life experiences and the politics of everyday practices, but also social change in a modern global world.
Note:
Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- 1 Globalized Bonds: Gift Exchange, Liminality, and Embodiment -- 2 Renegotiating Procurement Strategies: Elderly Women Applying Procurement Strategies of the Socialist Era to the Post-Socialist Condition -- 3 Reclaiming Folklore after Communist Era Oppression: Peasant Folklore of the Past Asserted in the Present -- 4 Culture of Communist Past within the Healthcare System: Reorganizing Healthcare and a Mystification of the Body -- 5 The Kitschification of Communist Material Culture: Politics Reinterpreted -- 6 Afterword -- Bibliography -- Index.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Symbolic Traces of Communist Legacy in Post-Socialist Hungary: Experiences of a Generation that Lived During the Socialist Era Leiden, Boston : BRILL, 2016, ISBN 9789004322110
Language:
English
