M Lampland
Biographic Data
| ID | 69745 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M Lampland |
| GIVEN NAMES | M |
| FAMILY NAME | Lampland |
| SIGNATURE | LAMPLAND M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California San Diego |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2491-4734 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 86 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Captivating Cartoons
In 1940s Hungary, there were two political parties-National Socialists on the right and communists on the left-typically depicted in mainstream media as extremist and prone to violence. They shared one crucial feature: both published joke magazines. Clearly envisioned as tools to recruit followers, their periodicals also served a broader purpose in transforming extremist ideas into commonsensical propositions for debate. Their rhetorical strategi…
Being There as Socialism Unravels
Early studies of the transition after 1989 focused primarily on the national and international consequences of bank reform, marketization, and political realignments. Far less attention was paid to the everyday experiences of those living through these momentous events. The work of anthropologists, in contrast, was concerned with the mundane hassles and existential quandaries people were facing, while never losing sight of the broader processes u…
What Happened to Jokes?”
Since 1989, commentators on both sides of the Atlantic have mourned the death of jokes in postsocialist societies. While in fact humor has not gone away, the everyday experience of sharing jokes as an intimate form of political criticism has indeed vanished. Drawing from ethnographic fieldwork, interviews, and archival research on the history of Hungarian humor, this article contributes a new perspective to the recent wave of scholarship on Sovie…
Calculating the Social
False numbers as formalizing practices
It will be argued that false numbers in working documents, formulae, and business plans are used as temporary or conditional devices to enable rationalization. The social processes of creating formalized practices depend upon activities that are themselves conditional and ephemeral. That is, rather than subvert the ostensible purpose of fixed representation, false numbers make stability and fixity in representation possible. Examples used include…
Altering States
International Relations and Politics
What Was Socialism, and What Comes Next
The Object of Labor
East European Communities
Socialism
Family Portraits
Pigs, party secretaries, and private lives in Hungary
Studies of the agricultural second economy in Hungary have focused on the role of recent state policies. It will be argued here that the specific character of socialist planning and practice cannot be understood without exploring changes in the form of social value over the last hundred years. This process, the commodification of social life, is also analyzed as the basis of anthropological theories of meaning. An alternative view of social proce…
False numbers as formalizing practices
It will be argued that false numbers in working documents, formulae, and business plans are used as temporary or conditional devices to enable rationalization. The social processes of creating formalized practices depend upon activities that are themselves conditional and ephemeral. That is, rather than subvert the ostensible purpose of fixed representation, false numbers make stability and fixity in representation possible. Examples used include…
Pigs, party secretaries, and private lives in Hungary
Studies of the agricultural second economy in Hungary have focused on the role of recent state policies. It will be argued here that the specific character of socialist planning and practice cannot be understood without exploring changes in the form of social value over the last hundred years. This process, the commodification of social life, is also analyzed as the basis of anthropological theories of meaning. An alternative view of social proce…
What Happened to Jokes?”
Since 1989, commentators on both sides of the Atlantic have mourned the death of jokes in postsocialist societies. While in fact humor has not gone away, the everyday experience of sharing jokes as an intimate form of political criticism has indeed vanished. Drawing from ethnographic fieldwork, interviews, and archival research on the history of Hungarian humor, this article contributes a new perspective to the recent wave of scholarship on Sovie…
The Object of Labor
Family Portraits
Calculating the Social
Pigs, party secretaries, and private lives in Hungary
Studies of the agricultural second economy in Hungary have focused on the role of recent state policies. It will be argued here that the specific character of socialist planning and practice cannot be understood without exploring changes in the form of social value over the last hundred years. This process, the commodification of social life, is also analyzed as the basis of anthropological theories of meaning. An alternative view of social proce…
Family Portraits
Socialism
East European Communities
What Was Socialism, and What Comes Next
The Object of Labor
International Relations and Politics
Altering States
False numbers as formalizing practices
It will be argued that false numbers in working documents, formulae, and business plans are used as temporary or conditional devices to enable rationalization. The social processes of creating formalized practices depend upon activities that are themselves conditional and ephemeral. That is, rather than subvert the ostensible purpose of fixed representation, false numbers make stability and fixity in representation possible. Examples used include…
Calculating the Social
What Happened to Jokes?”
Since 1989, commentators on both sides of the Atlantic have mourned the death of jokes in postsocialist societies. While in fact humor has not gone away, the everyday experience of sharing jokes as an intimate form of political criticism has indeed vanished. Drawing from ethnographic fieldwork, interviews, and archival research on the history of Hungarian humor, this article contributes a new perspective to the recent wave of scholarship on Sovie…
Being There as Socialism Unravels
Early studies of the transition after 1989 focused primarily on the national and international consequences of bank reform, marketization, and political realignments. Far less attention was paid to the everyday experiences of those living through these momentous events. The work of anthropologists, in contrast, was concerned with the mundane hassles and existential quandaries people were facing, while never losing sight of the broader processes u…
Captivating Cartoons
In 1940s Hungary, there were two political parties-National Socialists on the right and communists on the left-typically depicted in mainstream media as extremist and prone to violence. They shared one crucial feature: both published joke magazines. Clearly envisioned as tools to recruit followers, their periodicals also served a broader purpose in transforming extremist ideas into commonsensical propositions for debate. Their rhetorical strategi…
Political science (12 works) · Law (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Politics (8 works) · Communism (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Socialism (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works)