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Contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements

Introduction: Anthropology of Nostalgia—Anthropology as Nostalgia
Olivia Angé and David Berliner

Chapter 1. Are Anthropologists Nostalgist?
David Berliner

Chapter 2. Missing Socialism Again? The Malaise of Nostalgia in Post-Soviet Lithuania
Gediminas Lankauskas

Chapter 3. The Politics of Nostalgia in the Aftermath of Socialism’s Collapse: A Case for Comparative Analysis
Maya Nadkarni and Olga Shevchenko

Chapter 4. Why Postimperial Trumps Postsocialist: Crying back the National Past in Hungary
Chris Hann

Chapter 5. Consuming Communism: Material Cultures of Nostalgia in Former East Germany
Jonathan Bach

Chapter 6. The Key from (to) Sepharad: Nostalgia for a Lost Country
Joseph Josy Lévy and Inaki Olazabal

Chapter 7. Nostalgia and the Discovery of Loss: Essentializing the Turkish Cypriot Past
Rebecca Bryant

Chapter 8. Social and Economic Performativity of Nostalgic Narratives in Andean Barter Fairs
Olivia Angé

Chapter 9. Wither Left-Wing Nostalgia
Petra Rethmann

Afterword: On Anthropology’s Nostalgia: Looking Back/Seeing Ahead
William Cunningham Bissell

Notes on Contributors
Index

Anthropology and Nostalgia

Edited by Olivia Angé and David Berliner

244 pages, 12 illus., bibliog., index

ISBN  978-1-78238-453-3 Hb Published (October 2014)

ISBN  978-1-78533-338-5 Pb Published (September 2016)

eISBN 978-1-78238-454-0 eBook