Symbolic Traces of Communist Legacy in Post-Socialist Hungary : Experiences of a Generation that Lived During the Socialist Era.

In Symbolic Traces of Communist Legacy in Post-socialist Hungary, Lisa Pope Fischer shows how personal practices symbolically refurbish elements from the Communist era to fit present-day challenges. A generation who lived through the socialist period adapt to post-socialist Hungary in a global conte...

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Main Author: Fischer, Lisa Pope
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Boston : BRILL, 2016.
Series:Central and Eastern Europe.
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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgement; List of Illustrations; Note from the Series Editors; Introduction "A Ghost in the City": Reinterpretations of Communist Past in Post-Socialist Hungary; Chapter 1 Globalized Bonds: Gift Exchange, Liminality, and Embodiment; Chapter 2 Renegotiating Procurement Strategies: Elderly Women Applying Procurement Strategies of the Socialist Era to the Post-Socialist Condition; Chapter 3 Reclaiming Folklore after Communist Era Oppression: Peasant Folklore of the Past Asserted in the Present.
  • Chapter 4 Culture of Communist Past within the Healthcare System: Reorganizing Healthcare and a Mystification of the BodyChapter 5 The Kitschification of Communist Material Culture: Politics Reinterpreted; Chapter 6 Afterword Re-interpretation of Societal Change: "I am not political"; Bibliography; Index.