Grounding Contemporary Croatian Cultural Anthropology in Its Own Ethnology

Čapo, Jasna; Zrnić, Valentina Gulin

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“…Critics claim that this 'intellectual colonialism' creates power dynamics that produce 'hierarchies of knowledge' between 'dominant' and 'peripheral' anthropological traditions, where anthropologists in the former produce primitivist, exoticist and/or orientalist representations of the latter and their countries, cultures and/or societies (Almeida 1991;Buchowski 2006), excluding 'native' anthropological knowledge as irrelevant, or including it but only as a 'second-class' kind of knowledge (Čapo 2015a;Kürti and Skalník 2009: 14). This, so the criticism goes, leads to local anthropological knowledge being mostly ignored and excluded from the international discussions of those very countries, societies or cultures (Buchowski and Cervinkova 2015: 10;Kürti and Skalník 2009;Llobera 1986).…”

Section: European Anthropology As a Site For The Production Of 'Hieramentioning

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“…The addition of new adjectives is giving place to emergent formulations, such as 'true' (Čapo 2015b), 'doubly rooted' (Hann 2012), 'federal' (Papataxiarchis 2015) or 'peripheral' (Buchowski and Cervinkova 2015) forms of cosmopolitan anthropology. This reinterpretation of cosmopolitanism, highly influenced by the World Anthropologies framework, aspires to the construction of a non-hierarchical platform where it is possible to find the long-desired common ground (Čapo 2015a, 2015bEriksen 2019). It is, in the end, nothing different than what L'Estoile (2008) described as EASA's model of pluralistic internationalisation.…”

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Between Boundary-Work and Cosmopolitan Aspirations

Martinez

2020

Anthropological Journal of European Cultures

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This article presents a historical genealogy of EASA and European anthropology. Performing a heuristic exercise of ethnographic epoché, it critically examines European anthropologists’ writings on European anthropology and EASA as they appear in different statements and accounts, especially in the Association’s newsletters and reports of its conferences, understanding these documents as praxeologically embedded in anthropologists’ everyday production of knowledge. Drawing on the sociology of critique and the concept of boundarywork, it argues that EASA created its own ‘space of critique’, funnelling previous discussions on European anthropology, and becoming a platform for its production and its contestation as a site for the production of ‘hierarchies of knowledge’. Those contestations reflect an original and longstanding tension between EASA’s inclusive cosmopolitan aspiration and the exclusionary practice of boundary-work.

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Section: European Anthropology As a Site For The Production Of 'Hieramentioning

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Between Boundary-Work and Cosmopolitan Aspirations

Martinez

2020

Anthropological Journal of European Cultures

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“…Likewise, this gesture should not mean to strive towards the unification or homogenisation of different traditions and families, but to update and reconfigure inclusive platforms and connectors, pedagogical formats and modes of creating bonds (see Brković in this issue). Indeed, when approaching European anthropology, we discover that what makes it distinct is the way a space between nations is cultivated -through specific connectors, research infrastructures, and the design of common grounds and transnational meeting platforms (Čapo 2014;F. Martínez 2019).…”

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Martı́nez

2020

Anthropological Journal of European Cultures

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Boundaries influence how we live, the way we do and see things – but how? What role do boundaries play in effecting disciplinary shifts or stability in turn? And who is excluded when tracing epistemic frontiers and hard notions of relevance? This theme issue discusses the porosity of anthropology’s borders and the difficulty of establishing scholarly authority. We set out to reopen the conversation about the permeability of academic boundaries, exploring different conceptual, methodological and historical reconfigurations with and within European anthropologies. We also discuss how the epistemic and institutional boundaries of our discipline are changing, affecting in turn what people can know and with whom, as well as our sense of professional strength and vulnerability.

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“…The amount of literature has significantly has grown substantially since the 1990s. I refer to only a selection of contributions, among which several are edited volumes(Bošković & Hann, 2013;Dracklé et al, 2003;Hann et al, 2005b;Holubová et al, 2002;Skalník, 2002a) and articles(Brković, 2018;Buchowski, 2004Buchowski, , 2012aBuchowski, , 2012bBuchowski, , 2014Čapo, 2014;Ciubrinskas, 2015;Hann, 2009;Martínez, 2020;Sárkány, 2002;Scheffel & Kandert, 1994;Skovajsa, 2008;Testa, 2020).2 This work amounts to thirteen texts in total(Hann et al, 2005a;2002b, 2002c, 2002d, 2002e, 2004, 2005a, 2005b, 2007, 2018a, 2018b.…”

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A Crusade for Social Anthropology: An Analysis of Politics in Post-Socialist Debates

Balaš

2024

Czech Sociological Review

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This article aims to apply critical scrutiny to post-socialist discourse, an ongoing series of debates concerning the relationship between sociocultural anthropology and ethnology in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). To achieve my goal, I single out Petr Skalník's writings and subject them to twofold scrutiny. In the first part of my article, I offer factual criticism and point out the factual shortcomings of his work. The second part of the article puts the writings under sociological scrutiny, based on what I call a 'political reading', and proceeding from the sociology of science of Pierre Bourdieu. This perspective shows how scholars' concrete utterances in their factual accounts are related to power struggles within the scholarly community. This approach demonstrates how Skalník's concrete factual misrepresentations intrinsically relate to his objective of establishing sociocultural anthropology in post-socialist Czechia and the associated struggles between Czech anthropologists and ethnologists. The present analysis, by extension, allows us to better understand the post-socialist transformation of CEE academia and casts doubt on the veracity of post-socialist discourse itself.

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Grounding Contemporary Croatian Cultural Anthropology in Its Own Ethnology

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