Gerald Creed
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 664429 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Gerald Creed |
| NOMBRES | Gerald |
| APELLIDO | Creed |
| FIRMA | CREED G |
| AFILIACIONES | Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York, New York, NY, USA |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 4 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 7 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 4 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1997 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Avenues of re-enchantment in Bulgarian mumming
While Bulgarians have purportedly been mumming since ancient times, the last 20 years have seen an increase of interest and participation in these multi-purpose rituals. The ‘revival’ has been accompanied by an increase of expressed belief in the efficacy of the rituals to exorcize evil and bring abundance. How can we account for this seeming re-enchantment? Following a brief description of the rituals, this analysis tracks three dynamics that ha…
The vanishing villager
One measure of a scholar’s work is how long it continues to be relevant and useful. This article shows how The vanishing hectare and Transylvanian villagers, books written by Katherine Verdery twenty and forty years ago, respectively, help us make sense of contemporary developments in a Bulgarian village. Specifically, the current size and makeup of the population can be understood by examining who has been able to find value in village property,…
Masquerade and Postsocialism
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Second Thoughts from the Second World
While some aspects of the socialist past made aid essential to political and economic transition in eastern Europe after 1989, other socialist legacies seemed to undermine aid programs. As a result, aid ended up actually reproducing characteristics of socialist practice that it was intended to redress. This article accounts for such an outcome by outlining the special problems of aid in the post-communist context. It then draws on case studies of…
Second Thoughts from the Second World
While some aspects of the socialist past made aid essential to political and economic transition in eastern Europe after 1989, other socialist legacies seemed to undermine aid programs. As a result, aid ended up actually reproducing characteristics of socialist practice that it was intended to redress. This article accounts for such an outcome by outlining the special problems of aid in the post-communist context. It then draws on case studies of…
Avenues of re-enchantment in Bulgarian mumming
While Bulgarians have purportedly been mumming since ancient times, the last 20 years have seen an increase of interest and participation in these multi-purpose rituals. The ‘revival’ has been accompanied by an increase of expressed belief in the efficacy of the rituals to exorcize evil and bring abundance. How can we account for this seeming re-enchantment? Following a brief description of the rituals, this analysis tracks three dynamics that ha…
Second Thoughts from the Second World
While some aspects of the socialist past made aid essential to political and economic transition in eastern Europe after 1989, other socialist legacies seemed to undermine aid programs. As a result, aid ended up actually reproducing characteristics of socialist practice that it was intended to redress. This article accounts for such an outcome by outlining the special problems of aid in the post-communist context. It then draws on case studies of…
Masquerade and Postsocialism
Like the New Anthropologies of Europe series page on Facebook
Avenues of re-enchantment in Bulgarian mumming
While Bulgarians have purportedly been mumming since ancient times, the last 20 years have seen an increase of interest and participation in these multi-purpose rituals. The ‘revival’ has been accompanied by an increase of expressed belief in the efficacy of the rituals to exorcize evil and bring abundance. How can we account for this seeming re-enchantment? Following a brief description of the rituals, this analysis tracks three dynamics that ha…
The vanishing villager
One measure of a scholar’s work is how long it continues to be relevant and useful. This article shows how The vanishing hectare and Transylvanian villagers, books written by Katherine Verdery twenty and forty years ago, respectively, help us make sense of contemporary developments in a Bulgarian village. Specifically, the current size and makeup of the population can be understood by examining who has been able to find value in village property,…
History (2 obras) · Law (2 obras) · Political science (2 obras) · Sociology (2 obras) · Aesthetics (1 obras) · Ambivalence (1 obras) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (1 obras) · Architecture, Design, and Social History (1 obras) · Bulgaria (1 obras) · Bulgarian (1 obras)