CALL FOR PAPERS
ANTHROPOLOGY OF EAST EUROPE REVIEW
Special Issue: Spring 2005
Ethnographies of Czechs, Slovaks, Ruthenes, & Lusatians
Deadline December 15, 2004
Since the end of Communism in Czechoslovakia with the Velvet Revolution
in 1989, huge numbers of Westerners -- students, investors, tourists, and
the descendants of emigres -- have come to explore the Czech and Slovak
Republics. In contrast to many other parts of the former Soviet Bloc,
however,
Western ethnographers studying the former Czechoslovakia have had little in
the way of an academic tradition to follow -- primarily the work of three
emigre anthropologists, Ernest Gellner, Ladislav Holy, and Zdenek Salzmann.
Despite the substantial interest in recent years, there has been no single
collection of work on Slovaks, Czechs, and their diasporas in other parts of
Eastern Europe and in the West.
This special issue of the AEER aims to provide a forum for communication
among ethnographers working in the former Czechoslovakia, and with Slovaks,
Czechs, and related groups in other parts of the world. We are soliciting
submissions for our 2006 special issue on recent ethnographies of the Czechs
and Slovaks and the former Czechoslovakia, broadly understood also to
include
Ruthenia (Zakarpatska Rus or Podkarpatska Ukrajina), Lusatian Serbs, and the
diasporic communities of any of these four Western Slavic groups.
The deadline for submissions is December 15, 2004. Potential authors are
encouraged to contact the editors in advance. Articles can be any length, up
to approximately 10,000 words, and should follow American Anthropologist
format
for spelling and citations (http://www.aaanet.org/pubs/style_guide.htm).
Reviews of books or films (single or multiple works) will also be accepted;
interested reviewers should communicate with the editors for guidelines.
Guest Editors:
Timothy McCajor Hall, Ph.D.
UC San Diego, School of Medicine & Dept. of Anthropology
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Rosie Read, Ph.D.
University of Manchester, Dept. of Anthropology
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