Editors Barbara A. West, Managing Editor Eva lluseby-Darvas Nallcy Ries Robert Rotenberg, JVeb Editor Please address all requests for membership in the East European Anthropology Group to the Managing Editor. Prices: U5$20Iyr. for individual subscription, U5$30 for institutional subscriptions, or U5$1 0 for additional copies ofthis or any issue. The Web Page for the Anthropology ofEast Europe ReviewlEast European Anthropology Group contains links to most ofthe previously published articles. It can be found at this URL: http://condor.depaul.edu/~rrotenbe/aeer/ Managing Editor: Barbara A West, School ofInternational Studies, University of the Pacific. Stockton, CA 95211 USA. Phone: 209-946-3181; Fax: 209-946-3265. Email: bwest@pacific.edu. Web Editor: Robert Rotenberg, International Studies Program, DePaul University, 2320 North Kenmore Ave, Chicago, IL 60614 USA. Phone: 312/325-7460; Fax 312/325-7452; Email: rrotenbe@depaul.edu. New Editors as of Fall 2005: Krista Harper and Julie Hemment, Dept. of Anthropology, Machmer HaU215, University of Massachusetts - Amherst, Amherst, MA 01 003 USA Phone: 413-545-2221; Fax: 413-545-9494; Email: kharper@anthro.umass.edu or jhemment@anthro.umass.edu. ©AEER 2005 ISSN: 1054-4720 This is my farewell issue as the managing editor of the Anthropology of East Europe Review. Therefore, I would like to take this opportunity to thank Bob Rotenberg, the guest editors and authors with whom I've worked, and the loyal individual and institutional subscribers who have made it possible for me to produce this journal for the past two years. It has been a wonderful experience! I've made the decision to give up the position not because I am tired of the work of editing the journal or managing the organization's finances, but rather because I am leaving academia altogether, at least for the time being. My partner and I are following our hearts by moving to Melbourne, Australia. At this point I don't know in which direction my next career path will lead me, but I do know that the skills I've acquired as an anthropologist and an academic will serve me well no matter what. I also know that I'm leaving both AEER and the EEAG in very professional hands. Krista Harper and Julie Hemment have been active in the organization for many years and Krista has served as a guest editor of one of our most popular Special Issues, the Spring 2003 issue on Food and Foodways. All the best, 'Barb 'West mailto:jhemment@anthro.umass.edu mailto:kharper@anthro.umass.edu mailto:rrotenbe@depaul.edu mailto:bwest@pacific.edu http://condor.depaul.edu/~rrotenbe/aeer CONTENTS LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS ................................................................................................................................................... 3 GUEST EDITORS' NOTES SPECIAL ISSUE ON ETHNOGRAPHIES OF CZECHS, SLOVAKS, AND SORBS ............ .4 Timothy McCajor Hall, University of California at San Diego, and Rosie Read, University of Glasgow SECTION I: SOCIAL CHANGE AND CIVIL SOCIETY MEASURING PERCEPTIONS OF "CORRUPTION" IN CZECH SOCIETY .................................................................... 10 Raymond lune, University of California at Berkeley SOCIAL ATOMIZATION AND STRUCTURAL VIOLENCE IN THE TRANSITION FROM SOCIALISM .................. 30 David Karjanen, University of California at San Diego "ONLY A DEAD FISH FLOWS WITH THE STREAM": NGO FORMALIZATION, ANARCHOFEMINISM, AND THE POWER OF INFORMAL ASSOCIATIONS ........................................................................................................................ 38 Karen Kapusta-Pofahl, University of Minnesota, Hana Haskova, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Marta Kolarova, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic SECTION II: ISSUES OF GENDER AND SEXUALITY OLD ENTITLEMENTS AND NEW DEPENDENCIES: F AMIL Y VERSUS STATE IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC ........ 53 Rebecca Nash, the Henley Centre, London "A DIRTY CRAB EATING A WA Y AT THE BREAST': THE STIGMA OF CANCER IN POST-SOCIALIST CZECH REPUBLIC ............................................................................................................................................................................ 63 Denise Kozikowski, University of California at Los Angeles PLANNED PARENTHOOD BEHIND THE CURTAIN: POPULATION POLICY AND STERILIZATION OF ROMANI WOMEN IN COMMUNIST CZECHOSLOV AKIA, 1972-1989 ........................................................................................ 79 Vera Sokolova, Charles University PORNOGRAPHY, PRIMITIVES AND POSTSOCIALIST SLOV AKIA ............................................................................ 99 lames Quin, National University oflrcland at Maynooth "SAME PEOPLE, SAME SYSTEM": CHANGE AND GENDER IN A MORAVIAN TOY FACTORY ....................... 114 Ben Hill Passmore, University System of Maryland SECTION III: ETHNIC MINORITIES "TALKING NICELY": THE BIO-POLITICS OF SOCIAL WORK IN THE OSTRA VA ROMA COMMUNITY .......... 124 Krista Hegburg, Columbia University CZECHS IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA AND THEIR SOCIAL ACTIVITIES ...................................................... 136 Zdenek Uherek and Katei'ina Plochova, Institute of Ethnology of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic ETHNIC IDENTITY, LANGUAGE ATTITUDES, AND THE RECEPTION OF CULTURE AMONG STUDENTS OF SORBIAN SCHOOLS ......................................................................................................................................................... 15I Leos Satava, Institute of Ethnology, Charles University SECTION IV: MEMORY, HISTORY, AND THE ETHNOGRAPHIC PRESENT TELLING LIVES. AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND HISTORY AFTER SOCIALISM ............................................................. 160 Haldis Haukanes, University of Bergen MEMORY, SPACE AND TIME PERCEPTIONS IN A POSTSOCIALIST VILLAGE OF SOUTHERN SLOV AKIA .. 169 Davide Torscllo, University of Lecce, Italy ANTHROPOLOGY OF EUROPE AND COMMUNITY RE-STUDIES: PROPOSAL FOR A NEW CONCERTED RESEARCH INITIATIVE .................................................................................................................................................. 178 Peter Skalnik, University of Par dub ice 2 CORRESPONDENCE: REPLY TO MICHAL BUCHOWSKI... .................................................................. 194 Chris Hann, The Max Planck Institute CORRESPONDENCE: REPLY TO CHRIS HANK ................................................................... .. ........... 198 Michal Buchowski, University of Poznan and Europe-University Viadrina, FrankfurtiOder LIST UF CONTRIBUTORS Timothy McCajor Hall (mccajor@ post.harvard.edu) received his PhD in psychological anthropology from UC San Diego in 2003. He will complete his MD at UCSD in June 2005, and will then be a post-doctoral fellow at the Center on Aging at the University of Chicago and NORC. Hana Haskova (hana.haskova@soc.cas.cz) is a PhD candidate in sociology at Charles University. Since 2002, she has been a lecturer at Charles University in Prague, and a coordinator of the Czech research team on the international research project "Enlargement, Gender and Governance: The Civic and Political Participation and Representation of Women in EU Candidate Countries. " Haldis Haukanes (haldis.haukanes@ skok.uib.no) holds a PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Bergen, Norway, and is currently Acting Head of the Centre for Women's and Gender Research, University of Bergen. Krista Hegburg (kmh55@columbia.edu) is a PhD candidate in sociocultural anthropology at Columbia Univcrsity. Raymond June (rjune@alumni.uchicago.edu) is a PhD candidate at the University of California at Berkeley. Karen Kapusta-Pofahl (kapu0004@umn.edu) is a PhD candidate in sociocultural anthropology at the University of Minnesota. David Karjanen (dkarjane@weber.ucsd.edu) received his PhD in anthropology from the University of Michigan in 2003, He is currently a postdoctoral scholar at the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, UC San Diego. Marta Koi