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19 produkter
My Life As a Spy
Investigations in a Secret Police File
Häftad, 2018
345 kr
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As Katherine Verdery observes, "There's nothing like reading your secret police file to make you wonder who you really are." In 1973 Verdery began her doctoral fieldwork in the Transylvanian region of Romania, ruled at the time by communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu. She returned several times …
The Political Lives of Dead Bodies
Reburial and Postsocialist Change
Häftad, 2000
305 kr
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Since 1989, scores of bodies across Eastern Europe have been exhumed and brought to rest in new gravesites. Katherine Verdery investigates why certain corpses-the bodies of revolutionary leaders, heroes, artists, and other luminaries, as well as more humble folk-have taken on a political life in …
National Ideology Under Socialism
Identity and Cultural Politics in Ceausescu's Romania
Häftad, 1995
443 kr
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The current transformation of many Eastern European societies is impossible to understand without comprehending the intellectual struggles surrounding nationalism in the region. Anthropologist Katherine Verdery shows how the example of Romania suggests that current ethnic tensions come not from a …
National Ideology Under Socialism
Identity and Cultural Politics in Ceausescu''s Romania
E-bok, 1991
509 kr
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The current transformation of many Eastern European societies is impossible to understand without comprehending the intellectual struggles surrounding nationalism in the region. Anthropologist Katherine Verdery shows how the example of Romania suggests that current ethnic tensions come not from a …
Uncertain Transition
Ethnographies of Change in the Postsocialist World
Av Michael Burawoy, Katherine Verdery
E-bok, 2000
857 kr
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The ethnographies collected here offer a surprising and compelling picture of change in Russia and Eastern Europe found in no other book to date. Looking at the everyday processes by which individuals and groups forge new lives, the authors challenge the idea that we can understand this …
What Was Socialism, and What Comes Next?
Häftad, 1996
501 kr
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Among the first anthropologists to work in Eastern Europe, Katherine Verdery had built up a significant base of ethnographic and historical expertise when the major political transformations in the region began to take place. In this collection of essays dealing with the aftermath of Soviet-style …
Peasants under Siege
The Collectivization of Romanian Agriculture, 1949-1962
Av Gail Kligman, Katherine Verdery
Häftad, 2011
501 kr
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In 1949, Romania's fledgling communist regime unleashed a radical and brutal campaign to collectivize agriculture in this largely agrarian country, following the Soviet model. Peasants under Siege provides the first comprehensive look at the far-reaching social engineering process that ensued. Gail …
Vanishing Hectare
Property and Value in Postsocialist Transylvania
Inbunden, 2003
1698 kr
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In most countries in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, the fall of communism opened up the possibility for individuals to acquire land. Based on Katherine Verdery's extensive fieldwork between 1990 and 2001, The Vanishing Hectare explores the importance of land and land ownership to the …
Vanishing Hectare
Property and Value in Postsocialist Transylvania
Häftad, 2003
546 kr
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In most countries in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, the fall of communism opened up the possibility for individuals to acquire land. Based on Katherine Verdery's extensive fieldwork between 1990 and 2001, The Vanishing Hectare explores the importance of land and land ownership to the …
My Life As a Spy
Investigations in a Secret Police File
Inbunden, 2018
1287 kr
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As Katherine Verdery observes, "There's nothing like reading your secret police file to make you wonder who you really are." In 1973 Verdery began her doctoral fieldwork in the Transylvanian region of Romania, ruled at the time by communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu. She returned several times …
My Life as a Spy
Investigations in a Secret Police File
E-bok, 2018
519 kr
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As Katherine Verdery observes, "There''s nothing like reading your secret police file to make you wonder who you really are." In 1973 Verdery began her doctoral fieldwork in the Transylvanian region of Romania, ruled at the time by communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu. She returned several times …
Uncertain Transition
Ethnographies of Change in the Postsocialist World
Av Michael Burawoy, Katherine Verdery
Häftad, 1999
785 kr
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The ethnographies collected here offer a surprising and compelling picture of change in Russia and Eastern Europe found in no other book to date. Looking at the everyday processes by which individuals and groups forge new lives, the authors challenge the idea that we can understand this …
Property in Question
Value Transformation in the Global Economy
Av Katherine Verdery, Caroline Humphrey
E-bok, 2020
669 kr
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How has it come about that indigenous cultures, body parts, and sequences of musical notes are considered property? How has the movement from collective to privatized systems affected notions of property? At what point in transaction chains do native cultures, indigenous medicines, or cyberdata …
Property in Question
Value Transformation in the Global Economy
Av Katherine Verdery, Caroline Humphrey
E-bok, 2020
669 kr
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How has it come about that indigenous cultures, body parts, and sequences of musical notes are considered property? How has the movement from collective to privatized systems affected notions of property? At what point in transaction chains do native cultures, indigenous medicines, or cyberdata …
What Was Socialism, and What Comes Next?
E-bok, 1996
690 kr
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Among the first anthropologists to work in Eastern Europe, Katherine Verdery had built up a significant base of ethnographic and historical expertise when the major political transformations in the region began to take place. In this collection of essays dealing with the aftermath of Soviet-style …
Peasants under Siege
The Collectivization of Romanian Agriculture, 1949-1962
Av Katherine Verdery, Gail Kligman
E-bok, 2011
705 kr
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In 1949, Romania''s fledgling communist regime unleashed a radical and brutal campaign to collectivize agriculture in this largely agrarian country, following the Soviet model. Peasants under Siege provides the first comprehensive look at the far-reaching social engineering process that ensued. …
Property in Question
Value Transformation in the Global Economy
Av Caroline Humphrey, Katherine Verdery
Inbunden, 2004
2314 kr
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How has it come about that indigenous cultures, body parts, and sequences of musical notes are considered property? How has the movement from collective to privatized systems affected notions of property? At what point in transaction chains do native cultures, indigenous medicines, or cyberdata …
Property in Question
Value Transformation in the Global Economy
Av Caroline Humphrey, Katherine Verdery
Häftad, 2004
570 kr
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How has it come about that indigenous cultures, body parts, and sequences of musical notes are considered property? How has the movement from collective to privatized systems affected notions of property? At what point in transaction chains do native cultures, indigenous medicines, or cyberdata …
Secrets and Truths
Ethnography in the Archive of Romania's Secret Police
Häftad, 2014
342 kr
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Nothing in Soviet-style communism was as shrouded in mystery as its secret police. Its paid employees were known to few and their actual numbers remain uncertain. Its informers and collaborators operated clandestinely under pseudonyms and met their officers in secret locations. Its files were …
