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urn:uuid:66e0fd18-7917-42b1-b4f0-b05c33ce12a5 03 01 01 urn:uuid:66e0fd18-7917-42b1-b4f0-b05c33ce12a5 15 9781800643642 06 10.11647/OBP.0282 00 EB E107 10 Creative Commons License 02 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ 01 01 Anthropology of Transformation From Europe to Asia and Back 1 B01 21 0000-0002-6449-122X Juraj Buzalka 2 B01 21 0000-0002-6895-7402 Agnieszka Pasieka First edition. 01 eng 00 280 03 B2 Anthropology 04 GN316 12 J 10 POL032000 12 JPF 10 POL005000 B2 Politics and Sociology 12 JPFF 10 SOC002000 12 JH 10 SOC002010 01 06 03 00 This collection of essays is the result of the joint efforts of colleagues and students of the leading social anthropology and post-socialism theorist, Professor Chris Hann. With the thirtieth anniversary of the collapse of the Berlin Wall in 2019 as their catalyst, the authors reflect upon Chris Hann’s lifelong fieldwork in the discipline, spanning regions as diverse as East Central Europe, Turkey, and the Chinese north-west.The collapse of the Berlin Wall naturally triggered a plethora of analysis and scholarly research. Sociocultural anthropology, with its focus on ethnographic study and on the gradual evolution of social relations, sharply contrasted with the emphasis on dramatic rupture brought about by the 1989 transition. Continuing in this tradition, this volume, through micro-level analysis of societal transformation from the post-war years to the present day, provides an alternative perspective to the neoliberalist views often encountered in the scholarship on political and economic modernisation. The more nuanced analysis of social transformations proposed here is a particularly useful tool in the investigation of contemporary issues such as the COVID-19 pandemic, the refugee ‘crisis’, and the rise of right-wing populism in Eastern Europe and elsewhere. Anthropology of Transformation will be of interest to researchers in the fields of socio-cultural anthropology, religion and economics. Moreover, the book’s discussion of issues widely discussed beyond the field of academia such as neoliberalism and the welfare state, and populist and exclusionary politics, will appeal to non-specialist readers. 04 00 Contributor Biographies Introduction Juraj Buzalka and Agnieszka Pasieka Key Terms, or: The Title of the Volume Explained Chris Hann’s School of Anthropology On Method References 1. Voiced versus Acted Trust: Managing Social Uncertainty and Marginalisation in Rural Southern Italy and Central Eastern Europe Davide Torsello Analytical Approaches to Trust Methodology Voiced Trust Acted Trust Interpersonal Trust: The Kin Group Villagers Institutional Trust Conclusions References Appendix 2. Property Relations and Ethnic Conflict in Post-war Croatia: Reflections on Conceptual Approaches and Research Findings Carolin Leutloff-Grandits Introduction The Concept of Housing Relations and Their Transformation in Post-socialist, Post-war Croatia Housing Relations as Social Relations in Post-war, Post-socialist Knin The Housing Conflict, the Croatian State and the International Neoliberalist Policy The Re-entry of Ethno-nationalism through Spiritual Property Relations EU Accession and the Experience of Layered Time and Stagnation at the Margins of the Nation State Conclusions References 3. The ‘Post’ in Perspective: Revisiting the Post-socialist Religious Question in Central Asia and Central and Eastern Europe Julie McBrien and Vlad Naumescu Introduction Secularism and Religion between the ‘Posts’ Religious Transformations and Collective Dynamics Nationalism, State and New Political Mobilisations Conclusion References 4. “We Are Not Believers, We’re Workers”: The Synchrony of Work, Gender, and Religion in a Priestless Orthodox Community Agata Ładykowska Theoretical Considerations: Deorientalising Orthodoxy Prichud’e Priestless Orthodoxy Work and Prayer Conclusion References 5. The Moral Economy of Consensus and Informality in Uzbekistan Tommaso Trevisani Moral Economies in Post-socialist Eurasia Informal Economy in Uzbekistan The “Uzbek Path”, Informal Economy and Middle Strata Andijan and Its Consequences Navigating Everyday Informality in the Ferghana Valley Rationalising the “Dominant” Form of Integration Authoritarian Mode of Integration A Moral Economy of Consensus and Informality References 6. The Moral Dimension of (Un)Employment: Work and Fairness in an Eastern German Town Katerina Ivanova Introduction Work as a Moral Value before Socialism Work and Employment in the ‘Workers’ and Peasants’ State’ Zwickau Labour Market after 1989 Moral Dimension of Work Conclusion References 7. Beyond Blue Eyes? Xenophobia on the Eastern Margins of the European Union László Fosztó Introduction Ethnicity, (Dis)Embeddedness, and the Roma “The Two Romanias” and Emerging New (Dis)Integration Racialised Encounters with or without Migrants In Lieu of Conclusion: Refocus on the Local References 8. Post-Peasant Progressivism: On Liberal Tendencies in the Slovak Countryside Juraj Buzalka Populism and Transformations Post-socialist Memories Post-socialist Progressivism Liberal Ruralism Conclusion References 9. Swimming against the Tide: Right-wing Populism, Post-socialism and Beyond Agnieszka Pasieka Right-wing Populism and a (Missing) Anthropological Perspective Polish Labour Work and Populism, Work of Populism Conclusion References 10. Transoceania: Connecting the World beyond Eurasia Edyta Roszko Introduction Mobile Maritime Peoples, not Empires The Ocean Worlds Transoceania: From Terrestrial Divides to the Singularity and Connectedness of the Ocean An Emergent Thalassography of Transoceanic Connections Conclusion References Index 20 00 Open Access Open Book Publishers 01 Open Book Publishers Cambridge, UK 04 01 20221031 2022 06 15 9781800643628 06 15 9781800643635 06 15 9781800643642 06 15 9781800649439 06 15 9781800643673 06 15 9781800643659 06 15 9781800643666 09 Open Book Publishers 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0282 99 01 09 Open Book Publishers 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://books.openbookpublishers.com/10.11647/obp.0282.pdf 99 01