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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910798794603321
• Autore: Fischer Lisa Pope <1962->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , [2016]
• ISBN: 90-04-32864-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (231 p.)
• Collana: Central and Eastern Europe : regional perspectives in global context ; ; v. 7
• Disciplina: 306.09439
• Soggetti: Post-communism - Social aspects - Hungary; Communism and culture - Hungary; 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
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-212) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- 1 Globalized Bonds: Gift Exchange, Liminality, and Embodiment -- 2 Renegotiating Procurement Strategies: Elderly Women Applying Procurement Strategies of the Socialist Era to the Post-Socialist Condition -- 3 Reclaiming Folklore after Communist Era Oppression: Peasant Folklore of the Past Asserted in the Present -- 4 Culture of Communist Past within the Healthcare System: Reorganizing Healthcare and a Mystification of the Body -- 5 The Kitschification of Communist Material Culture: Politics Reinterpreted -- 6 Afterword -- Bibliography -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.