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. Providing a synthesis of the different traditions and contemporary approaches, the book is both thematic and fully cross-European in its approach. _ Provides an authoritative guide for researchers, instructors and students of anthropology and European studies _ Discusses important emerging trends in this broadening field of research _ Includes established names and rising stars who will shape the discipline in years to come…mehr
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. Providing a synthesis of the different traditions and contemporary approaches, the book is both thematic and fully cross-European in its approach. _ Provides an authoritative guide for researchers, instructors and students of anthropology and European studies _ Discusses important emerging trends in this broadening field of research _ Includes established names and rising stars who will shape the discipline in years to come
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 Niedermüller, 2003), and Sense of Community: Trust Hope and Worries in the Welfare State (with Bo Rothstein et al, 2009).
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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 Micha³ 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 Landscape Theory 322 Norbert Fischer
Part IV Cultural Practice 337
20 European Tourism 339 Orvar Löfgren
21 The Diversity of European Food Cultures 355 Gisela Welz
22 Language, Power, and Politics in Europe 373 Máiréad Nic Craith
23 Europe at the Crossroads of Rights and Culture(s) 389 Valdimar Tr. Hafstein and Martin Skrydstrup
24 Corporate Social Responsibility and Cultural Practices on Globalizing Markets 407 Christina Garsten
25 Extreme Neo-nationalist Music Scenes at the Heart of Europe 425 David Murphy
26 Anthropological Perspectives on the European Urban Landscape 440 Christiane Schwab
Part V Disciplinary Boundary Crossings 457
27 Medical Anthropology and Anthropological Studies of Science 459 Maryon McDonald
28 Uses of the Internet in European Ethnographic Research 480 Elisenda Ardévol and Adolfo Estalella
29 Visual Culture, Ethnography, and Interactive Media 497 Terence Wright
30 Hybrid Worlds of Europe: Theoretical and Practical Aspects 519 Elka Tschernokoshewa
31 An Anthropological Perspective on Literary Arts in Ireland 537 Helena Wulff
32 Toward an Ethnoecology of Place and Displacement 551 Ullrich Kockel
33 A Tale of Two Disciplines: European Ethnology and the Anthropology of Europe 572 Jonas Frykman
