On “Epistemic Arrest” and Different Forms of Capital: A Bourdieusian Analysis of Czechoslovak Ethnography
On “Epistemic Arrest” and Different Forms of Capital: A Bourdieusian Analysis of Czechoslovak Ethnography
Author(s): Veronika PeheSubject(s): History, Social Sciences, Ethnohistory, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Post-War period (1950 - 1989), History of Communism, Book-Review
Published by: AV ČR - Akademie věd České republiky - Ústav pro soudobé dějiny
Keywords: Czechoslovakia; state socialism; normalization; history of science; ethnography; folkloristics; Pierre Bourdieu; Antonín Robek
Summary/Abstract: BALAŠ, Nikola: An Ethnographic Chiefdom: Epistemic Arrest and Knowledge Production in Czechoslovak Ethnography (1969–1989). New York, Berghahn Books 2024, 356 pages, ISBN 978-1-80539-674-1.
Journal: Soudobé Dějiny
- Issue Year: XXXII/2025
- Issue No: 3
- Page Range: 943-948
- Page Count: 6
- Language: English
