Anthropology and nostalgia /
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 c...
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New York, NY :
Berghahn Books,
2015.
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Table of Contents:
- 1 Are Anthropologists Nostalgist?; 2 Missing Socialism Again? The Malaise of Nostalgia in Post-Soviet Lithuania; 3 The Politics of Nostalgia in the Aftermath of Socialism's Collapse; 4 Why Post-imperial Trumps Post-socialist; 5 Consuming Communism ; 6 The Key from (to) Sefarad; 7 Nostalgia and the Discovery of Loss; 8 Social and Economic Performativity of Nostalgic Narratives in Andean Barter Fairs; 9 The Withering of Left-Wing Nostalgia?; Afterword; Notes on Contributors; Index