A companion to the anthropology of Europe

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 studiesDiscusses important emerging trends in this broadening field of researchIncludes established names and rising stars who will shape the discipline in

Intro -- The Blackwell Companions to Anthropology -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Notes on Contributors -- CHAPTER 1: Introduction: The Frontiers of Europe and European Ethnology -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- PART I: Europe's Cardinal Directions -- CHAPTER 2: The Anthropology of Mediterranean Societies -- THE DISCOVERY OF MEDITERRANEAN SOCIETIES AS AN ANTHROPOLOGICAL SUBJECT -- THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF MEDITERRANEAN SOCIETIES: MAJOR THEMES -- CONCLUSION: THE MEDITERRANEAN SPACE - FROM CULTURE AREA TO HISTORICAL REGION? -- CHAPTER 3: Nordic Reflections on Northern Social Research -- COLONIALISM, YESTERDAY AND TODAY -- CONCEPTIONS OF ETHNICITY -- POLITICAL ECOLOGY -- DOMESTICATING THE WILDERNESS -- CHAPTER 4: Multiculturalism in North America and Europe -- I -- II -- III -- ETHNOCENTRISM -- ESSENTIALISM -- PRIMORDIALISM -- IV -- CHAPTER 5: Anthropology in Postsocialist Europe -- THE ETHNOANTHROPOLOGY OF (POST)SOCIALISM -- WHAT WAS SOCIALISM? AND WHAT IS POSTSOCIALISM? -- POSTSOCIALIST TRANSFORMATIONS -- CIVIL SOCIETY -- PROPERTY RELATIONS -- VANISHING AND EMERGING CLASSES -- TRANSFORMATIONS OF LABOR AND PERSONHOOD -- RESISTANCE -- GENDER AND RELIGION -- MEMORY AND NATION -- CONCLUSION -- CHAPTER 6: Europe in Eurasia -- INTRODUCTION -- FABRICATIONS -- RELIGION -- POLITICS, GOVERNMENT, BUREAUCRACY -- ECONOMY -- KINSHIP, RELATEDNESS, THE PERSON -- POSTSOCIALIST EASTERN EUROPE -- CONCLUSION -- CHAPTER 7: Mitteleuropean Ethnology in Transition -- ETHNOLOGY IN CENTRAL EUROPE TO THE MID-TWENTIETH CENTURY: THE CANON OF "NATIONAL SCIENCE" -- ETHNOLOGY IN A DIVIDED CENTRAL EUROPE: CONVERGENCES AND DIVERGENCES -- THE "ANTHROPOLOGICAL TURN" IN ETHNOLOGY - AN ATTEMPT TO TRANSFORM THE DISCIPLINE -- CONCLUSION -- PART II: European Integration -- CHAPTER 8: Anthropological Studies of European Identity Construction -- ANTHROPOLOGY AND THE EUROPEAN UNION.

Intro -- The Blackwell Companions to Anthropology -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Notes on Contributors -- CHAPTER 1: Introduction: The Frontiers of Europe and European Ethnology -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- PART I: Europe's Cardinal Directions -- CHAPTER 2: The Anthropology of Mediterranean Societies -- THE DISCOVERY OF MEDITERRANEAN SOCIETIES AS AN ANTHROPOLOGICAL SUBJECT -- THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF MEDITERRANEAN SOCIETIES: MAJOR THEMES -- CONCLUSION: THE MEDITERRANEAN SPACE - FROM CULTURE AREA TO HISTORICAL REGION? -- CHAPTER 3: Nordic Reflections on Northern Social Research -- COLONIALISM, YESTERDAY AND TODAY -- CONCEPTIONS OF ETHNICITY -- POLITICAL ECOLOGY -- DOMESTICATING THE WILDERNESS -- CHAPTER 4: Multiculturalism in North America and Europe -- I -- II -- III -- ETHNOCENTRISM -- ESSENTIALISM -- PRIMORDIALISM -- IV -- CHAPTER 5: Anthropology in Postsocialist Europe -- THE ETHNOANTHROPOLOGY OF (POST)SOCIALISM -- WHAT WAS SOCIALISM? AND WHAT IS POSTSOCIALISM? -- POSTSOCIALIST TRANSFORMATIONS -- CIVIL SOCIETY -- PROPERTY RELATIONS -- VANISHING AND EMERGING CLASSES -- TRANSFORMATIONS OF LABOR AND PERSONHOOD -- RESISTANCE -- GENDER AND RELIGION -- MEMORY AND NATION -- CONCLUSION -- CHAPTER 6: Europe in Eurasia -- INTRODUCTION -- FABRICATIONS -- RELIGION -- POLITICS, GOVERNMENT, BUREAUCRACY -- ECONOMY -- KINSHIP, RELATEDNESS, THE PERSON -- POSTSOCIALIST EASTERN EUROPE -- CONCLUSION -- CHAPTER 7: Mitteleuropean Ethnology in Transition -- ETHNOLOGY IN CENTRAL EUROPE TO THE MID-TWENTIETH CENTURY: THE CANON OF "NATIONAL SCIENCE" -- ETHNOLOGY IN A DIVIDED CENTRAL EUROPE: CONVERGENCES AND DIVERGENCES -- THE "ANTHROPOLOGICAL TURN" IN ETHNOLOGY - AN ATTEMPT TO TRANSFORM THE DISCIPLINE -- CONCLUSION -- PART II: European Integration -- CHAPTER 8: Anthropological Studies of European Identity Construction -- ANTHROPOLOGY AND THE EUROPEAN UNION.