Companion to the Anthropology of Europe

A Companion to theAnthropologyof Europe

BLACKWELL COMPANIONS TO ANTHROPOLOGY
A Companion to the Anthropology of Europe

"The volume also deserves a place on the shelves of academic libraries as well as the larger public library."
Reference Reviews

"Summing Up: Highly recommended. All academic levels/libraries."
Choice

"This important collection challenges all anthropologists to re-examine the importance of European perspectives on the most provocative debates of our time. It transcends regional interests to highlight the complex intellectual landscape of our field."
Tracey Heatherington, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

"This significant volume critically interrogates assumptions about Europe as an idea and a place for research. It provides fresh perspectives on the past and future of anthropological studies of Europe."
Deborah Reed-Danahay, SUNY at Buffalo, President of the Society for the Anthropology of Europe

A Companion to the Anthropology of Europe offers a survey of contemporary Europeanist anthropology and European ethnology, and a guide to emerging trends in this geographical field of research. Utilizing diverse approaches to the anthropological study of Europe, Kockel, Nic Craith, and Frykman provide a synthesis of the different traditions and contemporary practices.

Investigating the subject both geographically and thematically, the companion covers key topics such as location, heritage, experience, and cultural practices. Written by leading international scholars in the field, the volume constitutes the first authoritative guide for researchers, instructors, and students of anthropology and European studies.

Auteur

Ullrich Kockel is Professor of Culture and Economy at Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh and Visiting Professor of Social Anthropology, Vytautas Magnus University Kaunas. His publications include Re-Visioning Europe: Frontiers, Place Identities and Journey in Debatable Lands (2010), and A Companion to Heritage Studies (Wiley, 2015, edited with William Logan and M. Nic Craith). Máiréad Nic Craith is Professor of European Culture and Heritage at Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh. She is the author of Plural Identities, Singular Narratives: The Case of Northern Ireland (2002) which was joint winner of the 2004 Ruth Michaelis-Jena Ratcliff research prize for folklife, Culture and Identity Politics in Northern Ireland (2003), Europe and the Politics of Language (2006), and Cultural Diversity, Heritage and Human Rights (co-edited, 2010). Jonas Frykman is Professor II at Agderforskning, Norway, and Professor Emeritus of European Ethnology at Lund University. His publications include Identities in Pain (with Nadia Seremitakis, 1997), Articulating Europe: Local Perspectives (with Peter Niederm??ller, 2003), and Sense of Community: Trust Hope and Worries in the Welfare State (with Bo Rothstein et al, 2009).

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BLACKWELL COMPANIONS TO ANTHROPOLOGY
A Companion to the Anthropology of Europe The volume also deserves a place on the shelves of academic libraries as well as the larger public library.
Reference Reviews Summing Up: Highly recommended. All academic levels/libraries.
Choice This important collection challenges all anthropologists to re-examine the importance of European perspectives on the most provocative debates of our time. It transcends regional interests to highlight the complex intellectual landscape of our field.
Tracey Heatherington, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee This significant volume critically interrogates assumptions about Europe as an idea and a place for research. It provides fresh perspectives on the past and future of anthropological studies of Europe.
Deborah Reed-Danahay, SUNY at Buffalo, President of the Society for the Anthropology of Europe A Companion to the Anthropology of Europe offers a survey of contemporary Europeanist anthropology and European ethnology, and a guide to emerging trends in this geographical field of research. Utilizing diverse approaches to the anthropological study of Europe, Kockel, Nic Craith, and Frykman provide a synthesis of the different traditions and contemporary practices. Investigating the subject both geographically and thematically, the companion covers key topics such as location, heritage, experience, and cultural practices. Written by leading international scholars in the field, the volume constitutes the first authoritative guide for researchers, instructors, and students of anthropology and European studies.

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A Companion to theAnthropologyof Europe BLACKWELL COMPANIONS TO ANTHROPOLOGY
A Companion to the Anthropology of Europe The volume also deserves a place on the shelves of academic libraries as well as the larger public library.
Reference Reviews Summing Up: Highly recommended. All academic levels/libraries.
Choice This important collection challenges all anthropologists to re-examine the importance of European perspectives on the most provocative debates of our time. It transcends regional interests to highlight the complex intellectual landscape of our field.
Tracey Heatherington, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee This significant volume critically interrogates assumptions about Europe as an idea and a place for research. It provides fresh perspectives on the past and future of anthropological studies of Europe.
Deborah Reed-Danahay, SUNY at Buffalo, President of the Society for the Anthropology of Europe A Companion to the Anthropology of Europe offers a survey of contemporary Europeanist anthropology and European ethnology, and a guide to emerging trends in this geographical field of research. Utilizing diverse approaches to the anthropological study of Europe, Kockel, Nic Craith, and Frykman provide a synthesis of the different traditions and contemporary practices. Investigating the subject both geographically and thematically, the companion covers key topics such as location, heritage, experience, and cultural practices. Written by leading international scholars in the field, the volume constitutes the first authoritative guide for researchers, instructors, and students of anthropology and European studies.

Contenu
Notes on Contributors viii 1 Introduction: The Frontiers of Europe and European Ethnology 1
Ullrich Kockel, Máiréad Nic Craith, and Jonas Frykman

Part I Europe's Cardinal Directions 11

2 The Anthropology of Mediterranean Societies 13
Christian Giordano

3 Nordic Reflections on Northern Social Research 32
Hugh Beach

4 Multiculturalism in North America and Europe 51
Reginald Byron

5 Anthropology in Postsocialist Europe 68
Micha? Buchowski

6 Europe in Eurasia 88
Chris Hann

7 Mitteleuropean Ethnology in Transition 103
Gabriela Kiliánová

Part II European Integration 123

8 Anthropological Studies of European Identity Construction 125
Lisanne Wilken

9 Memory, Citizenship, and Consumer Culture in Postsocialist Europe 145
Ksenija Vidmar Horvat

10 The Europe of Regions and Borderlands 163
Thomas M. Wilson

11 Citizenship(s) in European Contexts 181
Catherine Neveu and Elena Filippova

12 Local Practices of European Identity on the New Eastern Borders of the EU 199
Justyna Straczuk

13 European Politics, Policies, and Institutions 212
Marion Demossier

Part III European Heritages 231

14 Presencing Europe's Pasts 233
Sharon Macdonald

15 An Anthropology of War and Recovery: Lived War Experiences 253
Maja Povrzanovic´ Frykman

16 European Religious Fragmentation and the Rise of Civil Religion 275
Peter Jan Margry

17 Studying Muslims of Europe 295
Gabriele Marranci

18 Roma and Sinti: The Other within Europe 310
Sabrina Kopf

19 Landscape, Landscape History, and Landsc…