Symbolic traces of communist legacy in post-socialist Hungary : experiences of a generation that lived during the socialist era /

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Author / Creator:	Fischer, Lisa Pope, 1962- author.
Imprint:	Leiden : Brill, ©2016.
Description:	1 online resource
Language:	English
Series:	Central and Eastern Europe ; 7 Central and Eastern Europe (Leiden, Netherlands) ; 7.
Subject:	Post-communism -- Social aspects -- Hungary. Communism and culture -- Hungary. Hungarians -- Social life and customs. Hungarians -- Social conditions -- 21st century. Older people -- Hungary -- Social conditions -- 21st century. Communism and culture. Hungarians -- Social conditions. Hungarians -- Social life and customs. Older people -- Social conditions. Post-communism -- Social aspects. Social conditions. Hungary -- Social conditions -- 1945-1989. Hungary -- Social conditions -- 1989- Hungary.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11757352

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ISBN:	9789004328648 9004328645 9789004322110 9004322116
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed September 22, 2016).
Summary:	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 context. Life histories weave together case studies of gift giving, procurement strategies, harvest ritual, healthcare, and socialist kitsch to illustrate turns towards mysticism, neo-traditionalism, nostalgia, nationalism, and shifts in time-place. People's unrequited past longing for future possibilities of a Western society facilitate desires for a lost way of life. Not only does this work gain understanding of an aging population's life experiences and the politics of everyday practices, but also social change in a modern global world.
Other form:	Print version: Fischer, Lisa Pope, 1962- Symbolic traces of communist legacy in post-socialist Hungary. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016] 9789004322110

Table of Contents:

Introduction : "A ghost in the city": reinterpretations of communist past in post-socialist Hungary
Globalized bonds: gift exchange, liminality, and embodiment
Renegotiating procurement strategies: elderly women applying procurement strategies of the socialist era to the post-socialist condition
Reclaiming folklore after communist era oppression: peasant folklore of the past asserted in the present
Culture of communist past within the healthcare system: reorganizing healthcare and a mystification of the body
"The kitschification of communist material culture: politics reinterpreted"
Afterword : re-interpretation of social change: "I am not political."

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