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Contents
Acknowledgements
Social networks and social capital (C. Wallace )
Introduction
Time and social networks
- Identities in change: Integration strategies of resettled Hungarians from
Czechoslovakia to Hird (southwestern Hungary) (Zs. Árendás)
- Managing instability: Trust, social relations and the strategic use of
ideas and practices in a southern Slovakian village (D. Torsello)
- Traditional economic life in the northern part of the Danube Lowland (I.
Danter)
- Destinies of the post-war colonists in the village of Trate: Unintended phenomena in the appropriation of public spaces (R. Muršič)
Interethnic spaces
- A village on the ethnic periphery. The case of Dlhá nad Váhom, southern
Slovakia (K. Tóth)
- Border region or contact zone. Ethnic and ethno-social processes in small
regions between the Hungarian-Slovak language and state border (L. Szarka)
- Between cultural and geographical borders Denomination of the Mátyusföld
region (J. Liszka)
- Stable networks in changing states? Borders, networks and community management in the northern Adriatic Istrian Peninsula (E. Kappus)
Interaction, migration and change
- Some aspects of the Roma migration from Slovakia (A. Szép)
- From East to West: The Roma migration from Slovakia (R. Weinerová)
- Migration from the former Soviet Union to the Czech Republic: Comparing
the cases of re-settlers from areas affected by the Chernobyl nuclear disaster,
Kazakhstan and labour migration from Subcarpathian Ukraine (Z. Uherek, K.
Plochová)
- Property, power, and emotions. Social dynamics in a Bohemian village (M.
Svašek)
- Race and social relations: Crossing borders in a Moscow food aid program (M. Caldwell)
Appendixes
- Research on the ethnic problematic at the Institute for Social Studies
of the Slovak Academy of Sciences (Š. Šutaj)
- The District State Archive in Šaľa and regional research (V.
Nováková)
- The Forum Minority Research Institute (A. Lelovics)
Epilogue (F. Pine)
Contact addresses
Review
The book is a contribution to the anthropological study of social networks in postsocialist societies. After the decline of the topic in the past two decades, social networks have re-acquired analytical importance in the anthropological investigation. The events that followed the fall of the Berlin Wall have produced dramatic and profound changes in Central Eastern Europe. In a general panorama of transformation, institutional restructuring and the forthcoming accession to the EU, it is not surprising if the importance of webs of networks that tie individuals or groups is recognised.
The authors approach networks not as static patterns of interaction, but as institutions in movement in time and space according to the ways in which actors configure their present.