Afterword

Abstract

A lot has been written about Central and/or East European anthro-pology before and after the political changes that took place in the region in and after 1989. As we stated in our introduction, these ethno-anthropologies—a term which implies a combination of traditions of continental ethnology and Anglo-American anthropology (sometimes used by scholars in the region, but probably first applied in the English publication by Dunja Rihtman-Augu š tin in 2004)—have had different trajectories in different countries. They have been dependent on changing political and economic contexts, and they have grown out of national theoretical traditions. In many places, anthropological intellectual life was vibrant long before 1989. We want to state once again that there has never been a single Eastern European ethnology in Central European countries and the diversity of intellectual traditions lying behind the contemporary practices of ethno-anthropologists from the region is visible in the ethnographies collected in this volume.