SESSION 1
March 27, 2008
Conceptual Foundations and Historical Overview
What Is East-Central Europe? Political and Cultural Geographies (Lecture, 14.30­15.50)
What Was Socialism? Historical Development and Economic Conceptualizations (Lecture, 16.05­17.25)
East-Central Europe as an Area of Anthropological Studies (Lecture, 17.40­19.00)
Assigned reading:
* Hofer, Tamás (1968) Anthropologists and Native Ethnographers in Central
European Villages: Comparative Notes on the Professional Personality of Two
Disciplines. Current Anthropology, Vol. 9, No. 4. (Oct. 1968), 311­315.
* Halpern, Joel Martin and David A. Kideckel (1983) Anthropology of Eastern
Europe. Annual Review of Anthropology, Vol. 12. (1983), 377­402.
* Sampson, Steven (1991) Is There an Anthropology of Socialism? Anthropology
Today, Vol. 7, No. 5 (Oct. 1991), 16­19.
* Galbraith, Marysia H. (2004) Between East and West: Geographic Metaphors of Identity
in Poland. Ethos, Vol. 32, No. 1 (Spring 2004), 51­81.
* Arnason, Johann P. (2005) Introduction: Demarcating East-Central Europe. European
Journal of Social Theory, Vol. 8, No. 4, 387­400.