Ludek Broz
Biographic Data
| ID | 588613 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ludek Broz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ludek |
| FAMILY NAME | Broz |
| SIGNATURE | BROZ L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Ethnology |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9971-0496 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Introduction: Veterinization: Extending Care and Control in More-Than-Human Health
This introduction develops veterinization as a framework for analyzing how veterinary knowledges extend across social and political life. Situating the concept in relation to medicalization and tracing the entangled histories of human and animal health sciences, it examines how veterinary authority and governance, data and standards, infrastructures, actors, and animal ontologies are reconfigured across diverse contexts. Veterinization unfolds as…
The many boar identities: Understanding difference and change in the geographies of European wild boar management
Wildlife management across Europe is increasingly characterised by a 'war on wild boar'. In response to epidemiological and economic threats to pig production and agriculture, state agencies, policymakers and hunting organizations have altered their management as they attempt to contain wild boar. Through a cross-section overview of eight European countries with differentiated strategies - the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Great Britain, Norwa…
Ghost and the other: Dangerous commensalities and twisted becomings
This article focuses on ghost-related othering: of those alive and those dead in a Siberian village; of those who subscribe to the existence of ghosts by certain Russian officials; of texts that do not reduce ghosts to a second order of reality from the genre of ethnography, and their authors from the rank of fellow anthropologists. Pushing the logic of the "ontological turn" in anthropology to its limits, it asks whether such instances simply re…
Le fantôme et les autres: Commensalités dangereuses et devenirs compromis en Sibérie méridionale
Cet article traite de la capacité des fantômes à faire devenir autre ; des vivants et des morts dans un village sibérien ; de ceux qui adhèrent à l'existence des fantômes ; de textes qui ne réduisent pas les fantômes à une réalité ethnographique de second rang, ni ne disqualifient les anthropologues qui s'en préoccupent. L'auteur prend appui sur les situations de partage de nourriture avec des morts, et sur les conséquences que cela est censé avo…
The Anthropology of Suicide: Ethnography and the Tension of Agency
Suicide and Agency: Anthropological Perspectives on Self-Destruction, Personhood, and Power
Siberian Automobility Boom: From the Joy of Destination to the Joy of Driving There
On summer Fridays, hundreds of people from Novosibirsk, Siberia undertake an eight-hour drive to the Altai Mountains only to drive back on Sunday. Rather than mountaineering, many of these tourists spend their time there relaxing in a sauna or preparing barbecue, i.e. doing things they could easily do much closer to their hometown. Exploring this somewhat bizarre pattern of weekend travel ethnographically, while simultaneously placing it in the g…
Introduction: Experience and Emotion in Northern Mobilities
This introduction opens a special section on emotional and experiential aspects of travel in Northern and Siberian landscapes. Conventional representations of the Arctic as a frontier have foregrounded the difficulties and risks of travel. The collection of articles presented here serves to complement this perspective, exploring both negative and positive connotations of travel. On the basis of ethnographic fieldwork in Greenland and Siberia, aut…
When Good Luck Is Bad Fortune: Between Too Little and Too Much Hunting Success in Siberia
Two indigenous Siberian groups-the Yukaghirs and the Telengits-share rather similar ideas about success in hunting as an elusive and highly precarious tension between too little and too much luck. In the catalogue of semiotics, it corresponds to the homonym whereby one sound/spelling is the manifestation of two words with different meanings. The result, as we shall show, is that any lucky hunter always inhabits the alternative possibility of his …
Conversion after socialism: Disruptions, modernisms and technologies of faith in the former Soviet Union
The large and sudden influx of missionaries into the former Soviet Union after seventy years of militant secularism has been controversial, and the widespread occurrence of conversion has led to anxiety about social and national disintegration. Although these concerns have been vigorously discussed in national arenas, social scientists have remained remarkably silent about the subject. This volume’s focus on conversion offers a novel approach to …
Substance, Conduct, and History: "Altaian-ness" in the Twenty-First Century
Since the early 1990s the Altai Republic has been experiencing a dispute about its archaeological heritage. This article deals with one aspect of it—the discrepancy between a local understanding of archaeological monuments as belonging to the direct ancestors of present day Altaians, and an expert view of many historians, archaeologists and physical anthropologists who see no relation between the two. Drawing on the work of Halemba and on Ingold'…
Pastoral Perspectivism: A View from Altai
One of the characteristic aspects ofViveiros de Castro's perspectivismis the relative rather than absolute character of subject/object positions. In the Altaian context, animals are not attributed with subjectivity in the way found in Amazonian cosmologies. Still, the subject position is not particular to humans: the landscape is populated by masters of a both human and nonhuman kind. The terminological division of animals into wild (a?dar-kushta…
Siberian Automobility Boom: From the Joy of Destination to the Joy of Driving There
On summer Fridays, hundreds of people from Novosibirsk, Siberia undertake an eight-hour drive to the Altai Mountains only to drive back on Sunday. Rather than mountaineering, many of these tourists spend their time there relaxing in a sauna or preparing barbecue, i.e. doing things they could easily do much closer to their hometown. Exploring this somewhat bizarre pattern of weekend travel ethnographically, while simultaneously placing it in the g…
Pastoral Perspectivism: A View from Altai
One of the characteristic aspects ofViveiros de Castro's perspectivismis the relative rather than absolute character of subject/object positions. In the Altaian context, animals are not attributed with subjectivity in the way found in Amazonian cosmologies. Still, the subject position is not particular to humans: the landscape is populated by masters of a both human and nonhuman kind. The terminological division of animals into wild (a?dar-kushta…
Introduction: Experience and Emotion in Northern Mobilities
This introduction opens a special section on emotional and experiential aspects of travel in Northern and Siberian landscapes. Conventional representations of the Arctic as a frontier have foregrounded the difficulties and risks of travel. The collection of articles presented here serves to complement this perspective, exploring both negative and positive connotations of travel. On the basis of ethnographic fieldwork in Greenland and Siberia, aut…
The many boar identities: Understanding difference and change in the geographies of European wild boar management
Wildlife management across Europe is increasingly characterised by a 'war on wild boar'. In response to epidemiological and economic threats to pig production and agriculture, state agencies, policymakers and hunting organizations have altered their management as they attempt to contain wild boar. Through a cross-section overview of eight European countries with differentiated strategies - the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Great Britain, Norwa…
Ghost and the other: Dangerous commensalities and twisted becomings
This article focuses on ghost-related othering: of those alive and those dead in a Siberian village; of those who subscribe to the existence of ghosts by certain Russian officials; of texts that do not reduce ghosts to a second order of reality from the genre of ethnography, and their authors from the rank of fellow anthropologists. Pushing the logic of the "ontological turn" in anthropology to its limits, it asks whether such instances simply re…
Substance, Conduct, and History: "Altaian-ness" in the Twenty-First Century
Since the early 1990s the Altai Republic has been experiencing a dispute about its archaeological heritage. This article deals with one aspect of it—the discrepancy between a local understanding of archaeological monuments as belonging to the direct ancestors of present day Altaians, and an expert view of many historians, archaeologists and physical anthropologists who see no relation between the two. Drawing on the work of Halemba and on Ingold'…
Pastoral Perspectivism: A View from Altai
One of the characteristic aspects ofViveiros de Castro's perspectivismis the relative rather than absolute character of subject/object positions. In the Altaian context, animals are not attributed with subjectivity in the way found in Amazonian cosmologies. Still, the subject position is not particular to humans: the landscape is populated by masters of a both human and nonhuman kind. The terminological division of animals into wild (a?dar-kushta…
Conversion after socialism: Disruptions, modernisms and technologies of faith in the former Soviet Union
The large and sudden influx of missionaries into the former Soviet Union after seventy years of militant secularism has been controversial, and the widespread occurrence of conversion has led to anxiety about social and national disintegration. Although these concerns have been vigorously discussed in national arenas, social scientists have remained remarkably silent about the subject. This volume’s focus on conversion offers a novel approach to …
Substance, Conduct, and History: "Altaian-ness" in the Twenty-First Century
Since the early 1990s the Altai Republic has been experiencing a dispute about its archaeological heritage. This article deals with one aspect of it—the discrepancy between a local understanding of archaeological monuments as belonging to the direct ancestors of present day Altaians, and an expert view of many historians, archaeologists and physical anthropologists who see no relation between the two. Drawing on the work of Halemba and on Ingold'…
When Good Luck Is Bad Fortune: Between Too Little and Too Much Hunting Success in Siberia
Two indigenous Siberian groups-the Yukaghirs and the Telengits-share rather similar ideas about success in hunting as an elusive and highly precarious tension between too little and too much luck. In the catalogue of semiotics, it corresponds to the homonym whereby one sound/spelling is the manifestation of two words with different meanings. The result, as we shall show, is that any lucky hunter always inhabits the alternative possibility of his …
Siberian Automobility Boom: From the Joy of Destination to the Joy of Driving There
On summer Fridays, hundreds of people from Novosibirsk, Siberia undertake an eight-hour drive to the Altai Mountains only to drive back on Sunday. Rather than mountaineering, many of these tourists spend their time there relaxing in a sauna or preparing barbecue, i.e. doing things they could easily do much closer to their hometown. Exploring this somewhat bizarre pattern of weekend travel ethnographically, while simultaneously placing it in the g…
Introduction: Experience and Emotion in Northern Mobilities
This introduction opens a special section on emotional and experiential aspects of travel in Northern and Siberian landscapes. Conventional representations of the Arctic as a frontier have foregrounded the difficulties and risks of travel. The collection of articles presented here serves to complement this perspective, exploring both negative and positive connotations of travel. On the basis of ethnographic fieldwork in Greenland and Siberia, aut…
The Anthropology of Suicide: Ethnography and the Tension of Agency
Suicide and Agency: Anthropological Perspectives on Self-Destruction, Personhood, and Power
Ghost and the other: Dangerous commensalities and twisted becomings
This article focuses on ghost-related othering: of those alive and those dead in a Siberian village; of those who subscribe to the existence of ghosts by certain Russian officials; of texts that do not reduce ghosts to a second order of reality from the genre of ethnography, and their authors from the rank of fellow anthropologists. Pushing the logic of the "ontological turn" in anthropology to its limits, it asks whether such instances simply re…
Le fantôme et les autres: Commensalités dangereuses et devenirs compromis en Sibérie méridionale
Cet article traite de la capacité des fantômes à faire devenir autre ; des vivants et des morts dans un village sibérien ; de ceux qui adhèrent à l'existence des fantômes ; de textes qui ne réduisent pas les fantômes à une réalité ethnographique de second rang, ni ne disqualifient les anthropologues qui s'en préoccupent. L'auteur prend appui sur les situations de partage de nourriture avec des morts, et sur les conséquences que cela est censé avo…
The many boar identities: Understanding difference and change in the geographies of European wild boar management
Wildlife management across Europe is increasingly characterised by a 'war on wild boar'. In response to epidemiological and economic threats to pig production and agriculture, state agencies, policymakers and hunting organizations have altered their management as they attempt to contain wild boar. Through a cross-section overview of eight European countries with differentiated strategies - the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Great Britain, Norwa…
Introduction: Veterinization: Extending Care and Control in More-Than-Human Health
This introduction develops veterinization as a framework for analyzing how veterinary knowledges extend across social and political life. Situating the concept in relation to medicalization and tracing the entangled histories of human and animal health sciences, it examines how veterinary authority and governance, data and standards, infrastructures, actors, and animal ontologies are reconfigured across diverse contexts. Veterinization unfolds as…
Sociology (8 works) · Anthropology (6 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (4 works) · Archaeology (4 works) · Ethnography (4 works) · Geography (4 works)