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Symbolic Traces of Communist Legacy in Post-Socialist Hungary
Experiences of a Generation that Lived During the Socialist Era
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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. Peopleâs 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 populationâs life experiences and the politics of everyday practices, but also social change in a modern global world.
Lisa Pope Fischer, Ph.D. (2001), University of California, Los Angeles, is an Anthropology Professor at New York City College of Technology (CUNY).
An accessible look into everyday life practices and post-socialist Hungary, this book appeals to any Social Science discipline interested in understanding social change in a modern global world.