Between "National Tradition" and Human Condition : Politics, Methodology and Epistemology amidst Post-socialist Change

Authors

  • Vytis Ciubrinskas Vytautas Magnus University, Center for Social Anthropology

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22582/ta.v5i1.409

Keywords:

politics of ethnology and anthropology, post-socialist change, Lithuania

Abstract

The article explores the disciplinary rivalry between 'national ethnology' and sociocultural anthropology in post-socialist Lithuania. I unpack the influence of national identity politics on the research and teaching strategies, methodologies and epistemologies of these two fields. In particular I show how institutional politics has shaped disciplinary practices at two major universities - Vilnius and Vytautas Magnus University - and explore the effects on its participants.

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Published

2015-09-21