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1 online resource |
| Series |
Central and Eastern Europe ; 7 |
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Central and Eastern Europe (Leiden, Netherlands) ; 7.
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| Contents |
Introduction : "A ghost in the city": reinterpretations of communist past in post-socialist Hungary -- Globalized bonds: gift exchange, liminality, and embodiment -- Renegotiating procurement strategies: elderly women applying procurement strategies of the socialist era to the post-socialist condition -- Reclaiming folklore after communist era oppression: peasant folklore of the past asserted in the present -- Culture of communist past within the healthcare system: reorganizing healthcare and a mystification of the body -- "The kitschification of communist material culture: politics reinterpreted" -- Afterword : re-interpretation of social change: "I am not political." |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed September 22, 2016) |
| Subject |
Post-communism -- Social aspects -- Hungary
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Communism and culture -- Hungary
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Hungarians -- Social life and customs
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Hungarians -- Social conditions -- 21st century
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Older people -- Hungary -- Social conditions -- 21st century
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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Communism and culture
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Hungarians -- Social conditions
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Hungarians -- Social life and customs
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Older people -- Social conditions
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Post-communism -- Social aspects
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Social conditions
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| SUBJECT |
Hungary -- Social conditions -- 1945-1989. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85063083
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Hungary -- Social conditions -- 1989- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh92000909
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| Subject |
Hungary
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9789004328648 |
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9004328645 |
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