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Book type: edited book

Edition: 1.

Edition year: 2024

Edition place: Bratislava

Pages: 230

Language: English

home anthropology, societal challenges, innovative methodologies, reflexivity, Slovakia

ISBN 978-80-69127-00-5. (online).

DOI: https://doi.org/10.31577/2024.9788069127005

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In: Understanding Slovakia: Contemporary Approaches in Local Anthropology

In recent years, European anthropology has grappled with the complexities of multiple interwoven crises—pandemics, war, climate change, and social instability—leading to debates on whether we are living in an era of ‘polycrisis’. While crisis thinking often isolates events from broader historical contexts, anthropology provides a critical framework for sustained ethnographic inquiry into these pressing issues. This volume, the first in the Challenges and Directions in Slovak Ethnology and Anthropology series, engages with these challenges by exploring the evolving landscape of home anthropology and anthropology at/of home, combining institutional selfreflection with methodological innovation. The introductory chapter shows that the unifying themes of liminality and temporality in the first section of the volume provide crucial interpretative frameworks for understanding contemporary Slovakia. These concepts bridge seemingly disparate case studies by capturing how individuals and communities navigate uncertain, transitory, and often precarious political, social, and religious circumstances. The study traces evolving methodological debates in athome research presented in the volume's second section, centering on the interrelated themes of reflexivity, mediation, and knowledge production. These concepts unify the discussions on positionality, sensory ethnography, and AIdriven archival research, highlighting how contemporary ethnographers engage with their own embeddedness in the field, navigate the mediation of experience through digital and material practices, and confront the changing nature of archival work in the age of artificial intelligence. By critically examining these issues, this volume contributes to the advance ment of ethnographic practice ‘at home’ and ensures that anthropology and ethnology in Slovakia remain responsive to global academic discussions.

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Pages: 8 - 28

Language: English

Edition year: 2024

home anthropology, ethnographic field, polycrisis, anthropological reflexivity, methodologies, Slovakia

DOI: https://doi.org/10.31577/2024.9788069127005.8-28

Panáková, J. - Gogora, A.: 2024. Anthropology at Home: Rethinking Methodologies in Slovakia. In: Understanding Slovakia: Contemporary Approaches in Local Anthropology. 1. vyd. Bratislava : Institute of Ethnology and Social Anthropology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, pp.8-28. ISBN 978-80-69127-00-5. . Dostupné na: https://doi.org/10.31577/2024.9788069127005.8-28

Panáková, J., Gogora, A.. (2024). Anthropology at Home: Rethinking Methodologies in Slovakia. Understanding Slovakia: Contemporary Approaches in Local Anthropology. Bratislava : Institute of Ethnology and Social Anthropology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, 8-28. ISBN 978-80-69127-00-5. . DOI: https://doi.org/10.31577/2024.9788069127005.8-28