Cultures and Communities in the Anthropology of Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union

Bibliographic Data

ID7635251
AuthorsThomas C Wolfe (Departments of History and Anthropology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455), Thomas Wolfe (University of Minnesota, corresponding author)
Year2000
Volume29
Issue1
Pages195-216
Publication date2000-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueAnnual Review of Anthropology (BOOK_SERIES)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0084-6570 • E-ISSN: 1545-4290
PublisherAnnual Reviews (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1146/annurev.anthro.29.1.195
OpenAlexW2148424592
LanguageEN
Citations received16
References cited52

Ethnographies and anthropological analyses of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union published in the last decade have been shaped by two major circumstances. First, they reflect the discursive possibilities opened up by the political upheavals of November 1989 in Eastern Europe and of August 1991 in the Soviet Union; second, they express and represent the theoretical heterogeneity of contemporary American anthropology. We can characterize anthropological work in the former Soviet Union as attempts to use and explore the concept of culture in various sites of social, economic, and political transformation. By contrast, anthropologists studying postsocialist societies in Eastern Europe have turned from analyses of the cultural practices of groups on the margins of modernizing state projects to accounts of how communities are shaped by systemic changes in the political economy of states

Cultural anthropology · Ethnography · Ethnology · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Soviet union · State (computer science · Anthropology · Eastern European Communism and Reforms · Law · Soviet and Russian History · Urbanization and City Planning

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