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Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology Ser.: Little Czech and the Great Czech Nation : National Identity and the Post-Communist Social Transformation by Ladislav Holy (1996, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherCambridge University Press
ISBN-100521555841
ISBN-139780521555845
eBay Product ID (ePID)281683
Product Key Features
Number of Pages244 Pages
Publication NameLittle Czech and the Great Czech Nation : National Identity and the Post-Communist Social Transformation
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1996
SubjectSociology / General, World / European, Anthropology / Cultural & Social
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaPolitical Science, Social Science
AuthorLadislav Holy
SeriesCambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
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Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight12.7 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN95-048157
TitleLeadingThe
Dewey Edition20
Reviews...a valuable and suggestive study....to enrich our understanding of the domestic transitions from communism Carol Skalnik Leff, Slavic Review|9780521555845|, "Serious students of Czech culture and politics can ill afford to ignore Holy's fascinating book." H. Steck, Choice, "As it challenges recent understandings of central and eastern European economic and political developments as 'natural' in themselves, the material within The Little Czech and the Great Czech Nation will be extremely useful to anthropologists who work in the region." Rebecca Nash, American Anthropologist
Series Volume NumberSeries Number 103
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal943.7/043
Table Of ContentIntroduction; 1. Nation against state; 2. Freedom, nation, and personhood; 3. Self-stereotypes and national traditions; 4. National traditions and the imagining of the nation; 5. National traditions and the political process; 6. Nation and state in the context of Czech culture.
SynopsisLadislav Holy brings to this timely study of national identity the skills of a seasoned researcher, a cosmopolitan perspective, and the insights of an insider. Drawing on historical and literary sources as well as ethnography, he analyzes Czech discourses on national identity. Arguing that there were specifically "Czech" aspects to the Communist regime and to the "velvet revolution", he explores how notions of Czech identity were involved in the debates surrounding the fall of Communism, and the emergence of a new social system., When Ladislav Holy precipitately left Czechoslovakia for the UK in 1968 he was already one of the leading anthropologists in Central Europe. In the following decades he made important field studies in Africa. Since 1986 he has been engaged in research in the Czech Republic, and he brings to this timely study of national identity the skills of a seasoned researcher, a cosmopolitan perspective, and the insights of an insider. Drawing on historical and literary sources as well as ethnography, he analyses Czech discourses on national identity. He argues that there were specifically 'Czech' aspects to the communist regime and to the 'velvet revolution', and paying particular attention to symbolic representations of what it means to be Czech, he explores how notions of Czech identity were involved in the debates surrounding the fall of communism, and the emergence of a new social system., Ladislav Holy brings to this timely study of national identity the skills of a seasoned researcher, a cosmopolitan perspective, and the insights of an insider. Drawing on historical and literary sources as well as ethnography, he analyzes Czech discourses on national identity. Arguing that there were specifically "Czech" aspects to the Communist regime and to the "velvet revolution," he explores how notions of Czech identity were involved in the debates surrounding the fall of Communism, and the emergence of a new social system., Ladislav Holy brings to this timely study of Czech nationalism the skills of a seasoned researcher, a cosmopolitan perspective, and the insights of an insider, exploring notions of Czech identity in the debates surrounding the fall of communism and the emergence of a new economic and social system.
LC Classification NumberDB2238.7 .H65 1996
