The Likeness

Semblance and Self in Slovene Society
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-0-520-32003-1
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 196 Seiten, Cloth Over Boards, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: Ethnographic Studies in Subjectivity

The Likeness is a close ethnographic study of subjectivity in the former Yugoslav republic of Slovenia. In this highly imaginative work, the author argues that much of what matters in Slovenia plays out on surfaces—of people and things, systems and locations—rendering the complexity of expression external and legible, but rarely unique or original. Here likenesses are everywhere in bloom and powerfully deployed. Moving blithely from Slovenia’s most famous thinkers to its most confounding artists, from grammatical categories of number to the particularities of history, The Likeness explores alternative modes of self-expression as postsocialist Slovenia gains visibility on the world stage.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bakke, Gretchen, Ph.D.

Bakke, Gretchen

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kultursoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Preface: Andandpersand

Introduction
I. Of Semblances and.

II. Of Selves

A Break in the Pattern

Chapter 1
I. Walter Benjamin, Ljubljana, 1986

II. Walter Benjamin (et al.) Speaks His Mind,
Ljubljana, 1986 (2001, 2003)

Chapter 2
I. Technologies of Self-Protection

II. “By the very cunning of the scene”

Portraits of a Three-Headed Mountain
(1968, 2004, 2007)

Chapter 3
I. Two in the Same: Janez Janša, Janez Janša,
Janez Janša, and Janez Janša

II. This Is Going to Hurt a Little

Chapter 4
I. Is Slavoj Žižek Full of Shit?

II. More on the Same Subject

Chapter 5
I. Inside the Body Is Blood and Bone

II. “. or at least fail while trying”

Afterword: Melania Trump (née Melanija Knavs)

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Gretchen Bakke is a cultural anthropologist at the Institute for European Ethnology at Humboldt University in Berlin. She is the author of The Grid: The Fraying Wires between Americans and Our Energy Future and a coeditor of Between Matter and Method: Encounters in Anthropology and Art and Anthropology of the Arts: A Reader.