SESSION 1


1. September 30–October 1, 2010 – Conceptual Foundations and Historical Overview


What Is East-Central Europe? Political and Cultural Geographies (Lecture, 16.00–17.20)

East-Central Europe as an Area of Anthropological Studies (Brief Lecture, 17.40–18.20)

Last Bus Stop (Documentary Film Screening, 18.30–19.30)


What Was Socialism? Historical Development and Economic Conceptualizations (Lecture, 10.00–11.30)

Political and Economic Theories of State Socialism (Lecture and Discussion, 11.50–13.20)


+ 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), 311–315.

+ Halpern, Joel Martin and David A. Kideckel (1983) Anthropology of Eastern Europe. Annual Review
of Anthropology, Vol. 12. (1983), 377–402. (ECE)

+ Verdery, Katherine (1991) Theorizing Socialism: A Prologue to the ‘Transition’. American
Ethnologist, Vol. 18, No. 3, Representations of Europe: Transforming State, Society, and Identity
(Aug. 1991), 419–439. (ECE)

+ Burawoy, Michael and Katherine Verdery (1999) Introduction. In Michael Burawoy and Katherine
Verdery, eds., Uncertain Transition: Ethnographies of Change in the Postsocialist World (Lanham:
Rowman and Littlefield), 1–17. (ECE, SU)

+ Berdahl, Daphne (2000) Introduction: An Anthropology of Postsocialism. In Daphne Berdahl, Matti
Bunzl and Martha Lampland, eds., Altering States: Ethnographies of Transition in Eastern Europe and
the Former Soviet Union. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1–13. (ECE, SU)

+ Arnason, Johann P. (2005) Introduction: Demarcating East-Central Europe. European Journal of
Social Theory, Vol. 8, No. 4, 387–400. (ECE)