Before us is an intriguing analysis of the reasons why Slovenia fell into crisis. Vesna V. Godina's basic diagnosis sounds simple on the surface: we imported capitalism in a foreign, that is, non-indigenized way, which necessarily produced an economic, social, and political crisis. But the book does not stop there, but rather provides a critique of the classic, mostly economic recipes for a solution and outlines the anthropological framework of Slovenia's post-socialist crime novel with a series of penetrating comparisons with other European countries.
About the author:
Vesna V. Godina
(born 1957) lectures in social and cultural anthropology at the Faculty of Arts, University of Maribor and the Faculty of Humanities, University of Ljubljana. In 2003, she was a Fulbright scholar and researched and taught at Hawaii Pacific University (HPU) in Hawaii. She is a member of the International Union for Anthropological and Ethnological Science (IUAES), within which she founded the Commission on Theoretical Anthropology (COTA) in 1995, which she chaired for many years, and a co-founder of the Commission on Ethical Relations (COER). Her bibliography includes more than 600 bibliographic units. Her areas of interest are the history of social and cultural anthropology and anthropological theories, the anthropological analysis of the socialization and inculturation process, and the anthropology of post-socialist societies. She also writes for magazines and newspapers. She is one of the most widely read Slovenian social critics, a columnist for One, the Saturday supplement of Večer, Viva, and other magazines and newspapers. Her latest work, published in book form, is Hawaii on paper, 2005.
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