Andrew Lass

Professor of Anthropology

email: alass@mtholyoke.edu

Office: Merrill House, Room 303

Tel: 413-538-2184


Publications

Books:

Lass, Andrew and Richard E. Quandt, eds. Library Automation in Transitional Societies: Lessons from Eastern Europe. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000

Lass, Andrew and Richard E. Quandt (eds.) "Union Catalogs at the Crossroads," Hamburg University Press, 2005


Articles:

 Lass, Andrew, 1999 "Virtual libraries in imagined communities: Is there a past in the future of public services?" Czech translation published in Narodni knihovna, 10(5), December.

 Lass, Andrew, 1999 Managing Delay: The Micropolitics of Time in the Czech and Slovak Automation Projects. In Library Automation in Transitional Societies: Lessons from Eastern Europe. A. Lass and E. R. Quandt, eds.

 Lass, Andrew, 1999 The Cross Currents of Technology Transfer: The Czech and Slovak Library Information Network. In Technology and Scholary Communication. R. Ekman and E.R. Quandt, eds. Berkeley: University of California Press.

 Lass, Andrew, 1999 Portable Worlds: On the Limits of Replication in the Czech and Slovak Republics. In Uncertain Transitions: Ethnographies of Change in the Former Socialist World. M. Burrawoy and K. Verdery, eds. Denver: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.

 Lass, Andrew, 1997 Provocations of European Ethnology. American Anthropologist 99(4).

 Lass, Andrew, 1996 with Dr. Vaclav Hubinger, sections on the Czech and Slovak Republics In European Anthropologies: A Guide to the Profession (Volume I). Susan C. Rogers, Thomas M. Wilson and Gary McDonogh (eds.). A publication of the American Anthropological Society, Arlington, VA.

 Lass, Andrew, 1995 "What are we like?" National Character and the Aesthetics of Distinction in Interwar Czechoslavakia. In National Character and National Ideology in Interwar Eastern Europe. Ivo Banac and Katherine Verdery, eds. New Haven: Yale Center for International and Area Studies.

 Lass, Andrew, 1994 From Memory to History: The Events of November 17 Dis/membered. In Memory, History and Opposition under State Socialism. Rubie Watson, ed. Santa Fe: School of American Research Press.

 Lass, Andrew, 1991 In Time for the Distant Other. In Great Britain, the United States and the Bohemian Lands 1848-1938. Eva Schmidt-Hartmannn and Stanley Winters, eds. Munchen: R. Oldenburg Verlag.

 Lass, Andrew, Zpritomneni, dejinnost a posun vyznamu psanych pamatek v Cechach v 18.stoleti. IN: Cesky casopis historicky, vol. 88, no. 6, pp. 852-866, 1990 (unathorized translation of 1987 Bohemia Zeitschrift article.

 Lass, Andrew, 1989 What Keeps the Czech Folk "Alive"? Dialectical Anthropolgy 14:7-11.

 Lass, Andrew, 1988 Romantic Documents and Religious Monuments: The Meaning Fulfillment of History in 19th Century Czech Nationalism. American Ethnologist 15:3.

 Lass, Andrew, 1987 Presencing, Historicity and the Shifting Voice of Written Relics in 18th Century Bohemia. Bohemia Zeitschrift, Band 28/1.

 Lass, Andrew, 1987 The Manuscript Debates. Cross Currents: A Yearbook of Central European Culture. Vol 6.


Translations:

  Lass, Andrew, 1998 Final Report on the Activities of Allan Ginsberg, American Poet-beatnik in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic (Czech secret police file from 1965). In Massachusetts Review (3).

  Lass, Andrew. Vratislav Effenberger "By the Lake of Tears" (a three act play). In Analogon: Surrealismus, psychoanalysa, pncne vedy. (in press)

  Lass, Andrew, 1984. Vratislav Effenberger "The Role of the Countryside in the Development of Imagery in Czech Modern Art" (includes samples of poetry). In The Peasant and the City in Eastern Europe. T.G. Winner, ed. Cambridge: Schenkman.