03811nam 2200673 450 991048088870332120170924174730.090-04-32864-510.1163/9789004328648(CKB)3710000000848773(EBL)4683159(MiAaPQ)EBC4683159(OCoLC)953708993(nllekb)BRILL9789004328648(EXLCZ)99371000000084877320160824d2016 uy 0engur|n|---|||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierSymbolic traces of communist legacy in post-socialist Hungary experiences of a generation that lived during the socialist era /by Lisa Pope FischerLeiden ;Boston :Brill,[2016]1 online resource (231 p.)Central and Eastern Europe : regional perspectives in global context ;v. 7Description based upon print version of record.90-04-32211-6 Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-212) and index.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.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.Central and Eastern Europe7.Post-communismSocial aspectsHungaryCommunism and cultureHungaryCommunism and culturefastHungariansSocial conditionsfastHungariansSocial life and customsfastOlder peopleSocial conditionsfastPost-communismSocial aspectsfastSocial conditionsfastHungarySocial conditions1945-1989HungarySocial conditions1989-HungaryfastElectronic books.Post-communismSocial aspectsCommunism and cultureCommunism and culture.HungariansSocial conditions.HungariansSocial life and customs.Older peopleSocial conditions.Post-communismSocial aspects.Social conditions.306.09439Fischer Lisa Pope1962-899514NL-LeKBNL-LeKBBOOK9910480888703321Symbolic traces of communist legacy in post-socialist Hungary2009882UNINA