Švejkian Anthropology

After my last hate-entry from April 2015 about Star Wars (my estimation was not really far from the truth so to say), I decided to turn my blog to a research one. Things went in an unexpected direction and beginning with September last year I am a Ph.D. candidate in anthropology once again.

As we say here - old love never rusts. After my failed attempt at a Ph.D., I could not resist the temptation and I am head over heels with anthropology again. To be honest, I never gave it up during my hiatus after my previous Ph.D had unsuccessfully ended. But this time there are deadlines.

There is one more change. I am not in Pilsen anymore. This time I am at the Charles University in Prague. The Erasmus year I spent in Durham (UK) as a part of my previous Ph.D. turned out to be more subversive than I had expected. You can read an article summing up my experience (hence the  title and the label Švejkian anthropology).

This finally brings me to the topic of my current Ph.D. thesis. It is the brief history of social and cultural anthropology in the Czech Republic with all its problems and ambiguities. Why brief? Because the attempts to plant anthropology on Czech academic soil began only after the Velvet Revolution in 1989. Why ambiguities? That is what I want to find out. The fact is that since its beginnings, anthropology in the Czech Republic has been accompanied by unceasing criticism.

So if you are ready for a mixture of the history of anthropology, post-socialism, higher education, PhD Stress, and maybe a hint of Bourdieu and a thousand elephants, feel free to hop on this scientific rollercoaster. Comments, advice and criticism are warmly welcome here!


For the inspiration to write a research blog, I am grateful to once a fellow classmate, Rob Flanagan. He was the first one who conveyed the idea of a research blog to me.

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