An Ethnographic Chiefdom

Nikola Balaš is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute of Ethnology of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague. He spent a year as an Erasmus student at the Department of Anthropology, Durham University (UK), and is a co-recipient of the SIEF Young Scholar Prize 2023.

Acknowledgements



Introduction



Part I



Chapter 1. Preliminaries

Chapter 2. Bourdieu in Czechoslovakia

Chapter 3. Ethnography and Folklore Studies as an Intellectual Tradition

Chapter 4. From 1948 to 1968          



Part II



Chapter 5. The Ethnographic Chiefdom

Chapter 6. Being an Ethnographer~

Chapter 7. Attitudes to Writing and the Publishing Process

Chapter 8. Epistemic Arrest and the Culture of Contention



Part III



Conclusion



Appendices

Appendix I: The Heads of Czech and Moravian Ethnography Institutions

Appendix II: Czech Translations of Anthropological Works



References

Index