David A Kideckel
Biographic Data
| ID | 97602 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David A Kideckel |
| GIVEN NAMES | David A |
| FAMILY NAME | Kideckel |
| SIGNATURE | KIDECKEL D A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Central Connecticut State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7128-2269 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 39 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Autoethnography as Political Resistance
This chapter considers some of the foregoing intellectual and political issues in folk/hidden ethnography by examining the life and work of a remarkable individual. Ethnography, both process and product, is a public phenomenon. While professional anthropologists have produced an abundance of work describing indigenous Mayan conditions, as Kay Warren discusses, much recent ethnography has been created by Mayans themselves in an attempt to control …
For Vintilă
In memory of Vintilă Mihăilescu (1951-2020
Sounds of Attraction
Popular music in former Yugoslavia appear to have had a much deeper impact on the development of the socialist state and its successors than is usually thought to be the case. The collection by the authors from the region presents feelings, stories and memories on popular music in Yugoslavia and its successor states
Coal power
This essay compares the social disjuncture of coal's decline in Romania's Jiu Valley and southern West Virginia/Appalachia. In both regions coal is fetishized, concentrating belief and creating a paradigm of meaning. But when fetishes lose power, social dislocation results. Coal's decline is often thought to produce common conditions in former coal regions. However, we suggest four factors shape regional variation: 1) political economy of class a…
Getting by in the last decade
Getting By in Postsocialist Romania
Kideckel's extensive fieldwork among Romania's Jiu Valley and Fagaraş coal miners, coupled with the workers' narratives quoted throughout the book, lends authority to his detailed analysis of the denigrating conditions suffered by "once celebrated" people. The regions under study were prosperous coal-producing areas that attracted a multicultural workforce. In the postsocialist era, as a transformed Romania becomes a consumer society, the miners …
Inheritance
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The 'Tar Baby' revisited
Miners and Wives in Romania's Jiu Valley
Theories of postsocialism posit great variability, uncertainty, and change in developing gender relationships. This article, using the case of Romania's Jiu Valley coal miners, suggests that gender change in postsocialism is somewhat more predictable than assumed as it is most typically dependent on changing class hierarchies and conditions. Due to large-scale economic restructuring in Romania's Jiu Valley coal-mining region and the denigration o…
Neighbors at War
The Politics of Duplicity
The Politics of Duplicity: Controlling Reproduction in Ceausescu's Romania. Gail Kligman. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. 373 pp
Being Muslim the Bosnian Way
Being Muslim the Bosnian Way: Identity and Community in a Central Bosnian Village. TONE BRINGA. Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, 1995; xxi + 281 pp. (paper). Tone Bringa's discussion of Bosnian Islamic identity focuses on the mixed Catholic-Moslem pseudonymous village of Dolina in central Bosnia. Bringa carried out fieldwork in 1987-1988 and briefly in 1993. As this period was critical for the development of the Bosnian conflict, Bringa'…
When History Accelerates
When History Asselerates: Essays on Social change, complexity, and Creativity. C.M. Hann, ed. London: Ath0lone Press, 1994. x+ 325., photographs, tables, notes, referbetween ences Index
The best laid plans
Nagengast, Carole. Reluctant Socialists, Rural Entrepreneurs: Class, Culture, and the Polish State. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1991. xvi + 239 pp. including appendices and references. $45.00 cloth. Verdery, Katherine. National Ideology Under Socialism: Identity and Cultural Politics in Ceausescu's Romania. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991. xvi + 406 pp. including notes, bibliography, and index. $39.95 cloth
Studying Up
Collective Farms Which Work
New Hungarian Peasants
Anthropology of Eastern Europe
This essay presents an overview of East Europeanist sociocultural anthropological research concentrating on the work of American anthropogists. Given the relatively late maturation of this field, most work has been published during the past decade. In recent years, the field has been marked by a great diversity in theoretical and methodological approaches. This survey concentrates on research by Americans and, with few exceptions, materials publi…
Members Address the Issue of Merger in a reorganized AAA
Secular Ritual and Social Change
Romanian collective-farm delegate assemblies are analyzed as secular rituals. Unlike ritual in general, assemblies are seen to promote social change and contradiction. This results from the themes, format, and symbolic content of assemblies being differentially interpreted by farm leaders and citizen delegates. These differential interpretations clarify the changes on-going in Romanian society for meeting participants, cause leaders and citizens …
The socialist transformation of agriculture in a Romanian commune, 1945-62
The Romanian socialist transformation of agriculture is analyzed as a sociopolitical process typical of complex society. Its specific character results from the interaction of national policy and local organization within a framework of regional power relations. National policy is transformed by community class relations, land use, and intracommunity variation as expressed in regional political economy. Local deviations promote change at national…
The Rites of Rulers
Combating "Creationists" in the Schools
The social organization of production on a Romanian cooperative farm
Anthropology of Eastern Europe
This essay presents an overview of East Europeanist sociocultural anthropological research concentrating on the work of American anthropogists. Given the relatively late maturation of this field, most work has been published during the past decade. In recent years, the field has been marked by a great diversity in theoretical and methodological approaches. This survey concentrates on research by Americans and, with few exceptions, materials publi…
The socialist transformation of agriculture in a Romanian commune, 1945-62
The Romanian socialist transformation of agriculture is analyzed as a sociopolitical process typical of complex society. Its specific character results from the interaction of national policy and local organization within a framework of regional power relations. National policy is transformed by community class relations, land use, and intracommunity variation as expressed in regional political economy. Local deviations promote change at national…
Sounds of Attraction
Popular music in former Yugoslavia appear to have had a much deeper impact on the development of the socialist state and its successors than is usually thought to be the case. The collection by the authors from the region presents feelings, stories and memories on popular music in Yugoslavia and its successor states
Coal power
This essay compares the social disjuncture of coal's decline in Romania's Jiu Valley and southern West Virginia/Appalachia. In both regions coal is fetishized, concentrating belief and creating a paradigm of meaning. But when fetishes lose power, social dislocation results. Coal's decline is often thought to produce common conditions in former coal regions. However, we suggest four factors shape regional variation: 1) political economy of class a…
Studying Up
Secular Ritual and Social Change
Romanian collective-farm delegate assemblies are analyzed as secular rituals. Unlike ritual in general, assemblies are seen to promote social change and contradiction. This results from the themes, format, and symbolic content of assemblies being differentially interpreted by farm leaders and citizen delegates. These differential interpretations clarify the changes on-going in Romanian society for meeting participants, cause leaders and citizens …
The social organization of production on a Romanian cooperative farm
Combating "Creationists" in the Schools
The socialist transformation of agriculture in a Romanian commune, 1945-62
The Romanian socialist transformation of agriculture is analyzed as a sociopolitical process typical of complex society. Its specific character results from the interaction of national policy and local organization within a framework of regional power relations. National policy is transformed by community class relations, land use, and intracommunity variation as expressed in regional political economy. Local deviations promote change at national…
The Rites of Rulers
Anthropology of Eastern Europe
This essay presents an overview of East Europeanist sociocultural anthropological research concentrating on the work of American anthropogists. Given the relatively late maturation of this field, most work has been published during the past decade. In recent years, the field has been marked by a great diversity in theoretical and methodological approaches. This survey concentrates on research by Americans and, with few exceptions, materials publi…
Members Address the Issue of Merger in a reorganized AAA
Secular Ritual and Social Change
Romanian collective-farm delegate assemblies are analyzed as secular rituals. Unlike ritual in general, assemblies are seen to promote social change and contradiction. This results from the themes, format, and symbolic content of assemblies being differentially interpreted by farm leaders and citizen delegates. These differential interpretations clarify the changes on-going in Romanian society for meeting participants, cause leaders and citizens …
New Hungarian Peasants
Collective Farms Which Work
The best laid plans
Nagengast, Carole. Reluctant Socialists, Rural Entrepreneurs: Class, Culture, and the Polish State. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1991. xvi + 239 pp. including appendices and references. $45.00 cloth. Verdery, Katherine. National Ideology Under Socialism: Identity and Cultural Politics in Ceausescu's Romania. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991. xvi + 406 pp. including notes, bibliography, and index. $39.95 cloth
Studying Up
When History Accelerates
When History Asselerates: Essays on Social change, complexity, and Creativity. C.M. Hann, ed. London: Ath0lone Press, 1994. x+ 325., photographs, tables, notes, referbetween ences Index
Being Muslim the Bosnian Way
Being Muslim the Bosnian Way: Identity and Community in a Central Bosnian Village. TONE BRINGA. Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, 1995; xxi + 281 pp. (paper). Tone Bringa's discussion of Bosnian Islamic identity focuses on the mixed Catholic-Moslem pseudonymous village of Dolina in central Bosnia. Bringa carried out fieldwork in 1987-1988 and briefly in 1993. As this period was critical for the development of the Bosnian conflict, Bringa'…
The Politics of Duplicity
The Politics of Duplicity: Controlling Reproduction in Ceausescu's Romania. Gail Kligman. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. 373 pp
Neighbors at War
Miners and Wives in Romania's Jiu Valley
Theories of postsocialism posit great variability, uncertainty, and change in developing gender relationships. This article, using the case of Romania's Jiu Valley coal miners, suggests that gender change in postsocialism is somewhat more predictable than assumed as it is most typically dependent on changing class hierarchies and conditions. Due to large-scale economic restructuring in Romania's Jiu Valley coal-mining region and the denigration o…
The 'Tar Baby' revisited
Inheritance
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Getting By in Postsocialist Romania
Kideckel's extensive fieldwork among Romania's Jiu Valley and Fagaraş coal miners, coupled with the workers' narratives quoted throughout the book, lends authority to his detailed analysis of the denigrating conditions suffered by "once celebrated" people. The regions under study were prosperous coal-producing areas that attracted a multicultural workforce. In the postsocialist era, as a transformed Romania becomes a consumer society, the miners …
Getting by in the last decade
Sounds of Attraction
Popular music in former Yugoslavia appear to have had a much deeper impact on the development of the socialist state and its successors than is usually thought to be the case. The collection by the authors from the region presents feelings, stories and memories on popular music in Yugoslavia and its successor states
Coal power
This essay compares the social disjuncture of coal's decline in Romania's Jiu Valley and southern West Virginia/Appalachia. In both regions coal is fetishized, concentrating belief and creating a paradigm of meaning. But when fetishes lose power, social dislocation results. Coal's decline is often thought to produce common conditions in former coal regions. However, we suggest four factors shape regional variation: 1) political economy of class a…
For Vintilă
In memory of Vintilă Mihăilescu (1951-2020
Autoethnography as Political Resistance
This chapter considers some of the foregoing intellectual and political issues in folk/hidden ethnography by examining the life and work of a remarkable individual. Ethnography, both process and product, is a public phenomenon. While professional anthropologists have produced an abundance of work describing indigenous Mayan conditions, as Kay Warren discusses, much recent ethnography has been created by Mayans themselves in an attempt to control …
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