Simmel and Slovak Village Shops

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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Simmel and Slovak Village Shops
Original language description
From the viewpoint of the villagers, the past shops were historically interlinked with otherness and outside, embodied either by the Jewish shop and innkeepers or by the socialist state. Drawing on broader ethnographic research concerning retail and shopping , this paper will explore how shops conceived of and conceptualised today, when there is no stranger (Simmel 1971) there, and the shops are owned and operated mostly by the villagers themselves. Overall the wider theoretical concern of the paper isto demonstrate that the more simplistic dualism that asserts modern commerce as somehow intrinsically opposed to spirituality and the construction of village community (Simmel 1978, 1991) needs to be reconsidered. In this paper I shall argue that there are many ways in which the shops and the activity of shopping do not oppose but actually complement and contribute to the project through which the village attempts to construct itself as a viable and in many ways holistic community.
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Publication year
2006
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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