Gerald W Creed
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 578759 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Gerald W Creed |
| PRENOMES | Gerald W |
| SOBRENOME | Creed |
| ASSINATURA | CREED G W |
| AFILIAÇÕES | City University of New York |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 19 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 145 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 18 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1984 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
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,…
Post-communist Nostalgia
Although the end of the Cold War was greeted with great enthusiasm by people in the East and the West, the ensuing social and especially economic changes did not always result in the hoped-for improvements in people’s lives. This led to widespread disillusionment that can be observed today all across Eastern Europe. Not simply a longing for security, stability, and prosperity, this nostalgia is also a sense of loss regarding a specific form of so…
Knowing Your Place
Knowing Your Place directs groundbreaking attention to the role of rural and urban places in identity construction. Written to redress the longstanding neglect and denigration of the rural, this book argues that the cultural dominance of the city has been reinforced by postmodern theory's near fixation on the urban and the sophisticated. The essays explore rural identity in a number of cultures and situations, and look at issues of contemporary i…
Masquerade and Postsocialism
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Constituted through Conflict
Following the 20th anniversary of Benedict Anderson's Imagined Communities, this article extrapolates how attention to actual notions of community might redirect his important intervention. It suggests that locally and culturally specific ideas about collectivity shape the experience and expectations of national-level projections. To demonstrate this outcome the analysis focuses on Bulgarian mumming-spectacular winter rituals in which threatening…
"Family Values" and Domestic Economies
This review inverts the idiom "family values" to show the value of the family. It grounds this value in family economic activity but advocates an interactive approach in which cultural commitments to the family influence economic and political outcomes. Historical and ethnographic research on the family is mustered to illustrate the interaction and then combined with theories of capitalism and nationalism to account for the resonance of the famil…
Domesticating Revolution
An Interview with Sydel Silverman
Uncommon research on the common European home
Frydman, Roman, Andrzej Rapaczynski, and John S. Earle. The Privatization Process in Central Europe. London: Central European University Press, 1993. xiv + 262 pp. $15.00 paper. Wilson, Thomas M. and M. Estellie Smith, eds. Cultural Change and the New Europe: Perspectives on the European Community. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1993. x + 244 pp. including chapter references and index. $39.95 cloth
Fields of Wheat, Hills of Blood
Fields of Wheat, Hills of Blood: Passages to Nationhood in Greek Macedonia, 1870-1990. Anastasia N. Karakasidou. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997.334 pp
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…
The Politics of Agriculture
When Bulgarians elected a parliament dominated by the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) in their first, free postcommunist election, they were considered the mavericks of eastern Europe. As Misha Glenny critically points out, "Bulgaria bucks the trend" was a recurrent phrase in English-language reports of the 1990 contest. But four years later, after an intervening non-socialist government, a second socialist victory seemed to be following trends s…
Agriculture and the domestication of industry in rural Bulgaria
The capitalist model underlying most analyses of agro-industrial interaction leads to an assumption of industrial determinism whereby the requirements of industry set the parameters for agricultural adaptations. Examining the interaction under east European socialism challenges this premise. In Bulgaria the complete integration of the local socialist economy worked together with a continuing cultural equation between village and agriculture to "d…
Rural-Urban Oppositions in the Bulgarian Political Transition
Between economy and ideology
Sexual Subordination
The seductions of community
The concept of is ubiquitous in way we talk and think about life in twenty-first century. Political and economic projects from rainforest conservation to urban empowerment zones focus on the as appropriate vehicle and target of change. Some scholars see a decline of community and predict dire social consequences; others criticize concept itself for its ideological baggage and lack of clear definition. Moving debate to a deeper level, contributors…
Masquerade and Postsocialism
Introduction: Cultural Dispossession 1. A Mumming Season 2. Gender and Sexuality 3. Civil Society and Democracy 4. Autonomy and Community 5. Ethnicity and Nationalism Conclusion: Modernity in Drag Notes References Cited Index
Domesticating Revolution
"Family Values" and Domestic Economies
This review inverts the idiom "family values" to show the value of the family. It grounds this value in family economic activity but advocates an interactive approach in which cultural commitments to the family influence economic and political outcomes. Historical and ethnographic research on the family is mustered to illustrate the interaction and then combined with theories of capitalism and nationalism to account for the resonance of the famil…
Constituted through Conflict
Following the 20th anniversary of Benedict Anderson's Imagined Communities, this article extrapolates how attention to actual notions of community might redirect his important intervention. It suggests that locally and culturally specific ideas about collectivity shape the experience and expectations of national-level projections. To demonstrate this outcome the analysis focuses on Bulgarian mumming-spectacular winter rituals in which threatening…
The Politics of Agriculture
When Bulgarians elected a parliament dominated by the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) in their first, free postcommunist election, they were considered the mavericks of eastern Europe. As Misha Glenny critically points out, "Bulgaria bucks the trend" was a recurrent phrase in English-language reports of the 1990 contest. But four years later, after an intervening non-socialist government, a second socialist victory seemed to be following trends s…
Agriculture and the domestication of industry in rural Bulgaria
The capitalist model underlying most analyses of agro-industrial interaction leads to an assumption of industrial determinism whereby the requirements of industry set the parameters for agricultural adaptations. Examining the interaction under east European socialism challenges this premise. In Bulgaria the complete integration of the local socialist economy worked together with a continuing cultural equation between village and agriculture to "d…
Sexual Subordination
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…
Fields of Wheat, Hills of Blood
Fields of Wheat, Hills of Blood: Passages to Nationhood in Greek Macedonia, 1870-1990. Anastasia N. Karakasidou. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997.334 pp
Between economy and ideology
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…
An Interview with Sydel Silverman
Sexual Subordination
Between economy and ideology
Rural-Urban Oppositions in the Bulgarian Political Transition
The Politics of Agriculture
When Bulgarians elected a parliament dominated by the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) in their first, free postcommunist election, they were considered the mavericks of eastern Europe. As Misha Glenny critically points out, "Bulgaria bucks the trend" was a recurrent phrase in English-language reports of the 1990 contest. But four years later, after an intervening non-socialist government, a second socialist victory seemed to be following trends s…
Agriculture and the domestication of industry in rural Bulgaria
The capitalist model underlying most analyses of agro-industrial interaction leads to an assumption of industrial determinism whereby the requirements of industry set the parameters for agricultural adaptations. Examining the interaction under east European socialism challenges this premise. In Bulgaria the complete integration of the local socialist economy worked together with a continuing cultural equation between village and agriculture to "d…
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…
Uncommon research on the common European home
Frydman, Roman, Andrzej Rapaczynski, and John S. Earle. The Privatization Process in Central Europe. London: Central European University Press, 1993. xiv + 262 pp. $15.00 paper. Wilson, Thomas M. and M. Estellie Smith, eds. Cultural Change and the New Europe: Perspectives on the European Community. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1993. x + 244 pp. including chapter references and index. $39.95 cloth
Fields of Wheat, Hills of Blood
Fields of Wheat, Hills of Blood: Passages to Nationhood in Greek Macedonia, 1870-1990. Anastasia N. Karakasidou. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997.334 pp
Domesticating Revolution
An Interview with Sydel Silverman
"Family Values" and Domestic Economies
This review inverts the idiom "family values" to show the value of the family. It grounds this value in family economic activity but advocates an interactive approach in which cultural commitments to the family influence economic and political outcomes. Historical and ethnographic research on the family is mustered to illustrate the interaction and then combined with theories of capitalism and nationalism to account for the resonance of the famil…
Constituted through Conflict
Following the 20th anniversary of Benedict Anderson's Imagined Communities, this article extrapolates how attention to actual notions of community might redirect his important intervention. It suggests that locally and culturally specific ideas about collectivity shape the experience and expectations of national-level projections. To demonstrate this outcome the analysis focuses on Bulgarian mumming-spectacular winter rituals in which threatening…
Masquerade and Postsocialism
Like the New Anthropologies of Europe series page on Facebook
Knowing Your Place
Knowing Your Place directs groundbreaking attention to the role of rural and urban places in identity construction. Written to redress the longstanding neglect and denigration of the rural, this book argues that the cultural dominance of the city has been reinforced by postmodern theory's near fixation on the urban and the sophisticated. The essays explore rural identity in a number of cultures and situations, and look at issues of contemporary i…
Post-communist Nostalgia
Although the end of the Cold War was greeted with great enthusiasm by people in the East and the West, the ensuing social and especially economic changes did not always result in the hoped-for improvements in people’s lives. This led to widespread disillusionment that can be observed today all across Eastern Europe. Not simply a longing for security, stability, and prosperity, this nostalgia is also a sense of loss regarding a specific form of so…
The seductions of community
The concept of is ubiquitous in way we talk and think about life in twenty-first century. Political and economic projects from rainforest conservation to urban empowerment zones focus on the as appropriate vehicle and target of change. Some scholars see a decline of community and predict dire social consequences; others criticize concept itself for its ideological baggage and lack of clear definition. Moving debate to a deeper level, contributors…
Masquerade and Postsocialism
Introduction: Cultural Dispossession 1. A Mumming Season 2. Gender and Sexuality 3. Civil Society and Democracy 4. Autonomy and Community 5. Ethnicity and Nationalism Conclusion: Modernity in Drag Notes References Cited Index
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,…
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