Katherine Verdery
Brushing aside the ideological curtain
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2230174 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Martha Lampland (University of California San Diego, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 494-496 |
| Publication date | 2024-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Hau Journal of Ethnographic Theory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2049-1115 • E-ISSN: 2575-1433 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/731138 |
| OpenAlex | W4402680356 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 5 |
This contribution highlights one of Katherine Verdery’s strengths as an anthropologist: her ability to recognize and penetrate foundational ideological formations to analyze the sociocultural dynamics at play. The ideological formations she has deciphered range from nationalism and ethnic identity, the intellectual pillars reinforcing the legitimacy of the Romanian Communist Party, the fantasy of get-rich schemes in capitalist imaginaries, to the illusions of neoliberal claims about property ownership and civil society. Examples illustrating her technique are drawn from four significant publications: Transylvanian villagers, National ideology under socialism, “Faith, hope, and caritas in the land of pyramids, Romania, 1990–1994,” and The vanishing hectare
Art · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Balkans: History, Politics, Society · Decolonial Thought and Epistemologies
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |