aeer: A Pathfinder

This is a computer-generated pathfinder created against the Distant Reader study called aeer.

Each Distant Reader study carrel is composed of many individual items. Each item is bibliographically described with author, title, date, summary, and keyword values. Below is a list of the items' most signficant keywords as well as lists of the items themselves. Purpusing the content of this pathfinder provides the student, researcher, or scholar with one way to get their heads around the scope of the carrel. The keywords include:

Anthropology; People; East; Women; State; Soviet; Identity; Culture; Time; Village; Life; European; Food; Music; Work; War; Czech; World; Public; Press; Family; History; Power; Community; Roma; Group; Students; Communist; Region; Ukraine; Consumption; Yugoslavia; Government; Movement; Past; Macedonia; Health; Socialist; Russia; Hungarian; Socialism; Project; Education; Market; Moldova; Text; Post; Families; Town; Class; Law; Communities; Hann; Odessa; Slovak; Scholars; Slovakia; Serbia; Albanian; Birth; Representations; Caucasus; Editors; Mukls; Celebrity; Ojs; Creed; Jennifer

Depending on how this pathfinder was created, many of the bibliographic sections will include elaborations on the meaning(s) of the given keywords. These elaborations were generated by feeding the items' summaries to a large langauge model and asking the model to address the question, "What is X?", where "X" is the keyword. The result will be a few sentences of elaboration. Be forewarned. The elaborations are often plausible, but they should not be take as truth. Instead, they should be taken as points for consideration.

• The Gendered Feast: Experiencing a Georgian Supra by Linderman, Laura Joy (2011) - In the above example, the painstaking time and attention to detail that is put into preparing supra food comes across quite clearly. Women’s experiences of the supra (like men’s) is different depending on the type of supra, the other participants involved, the age of the woman, her class and her particular geographical location. Keywords: 29(2; anthropology; cake; college; east; eka; europe; fall; food; gender; georgia; manning; mühlfried; n.d; review; ritual; supra; table; tamada; time; toasting; toasts; wine; women
• Pictures from the Margins: Disability and Difference in Post-Socialist Art by Bueva, Olia (2011) - While displays of body art in Russia and Eastern Europe were generally confined to the local art scenes, the end of the 1980s and beginning of the 90s saw an introduction of eastern body art to the western art world, generally dictated by mostly male Russian artists, especially Erik Bulatov, Ilya Kabakov and Komar and Melamid, the representative type of eastern art being formed in the general atmosphere of the transition of art from modernist universalism to post-modernist particularism and, inherent to it, cultural identity politics (Badovinac 1999:14-15). The Soviet representational regime—in which people with disabilities body was troped as deficient, but capable of transcending lack of mobility through moral virtue, physical endurance and political engagement—traditionally excluded positive or respectful representations of women with disabilities, since femininity and disability occupied the same discursive space, and both often were associated with pity, personal tragedy, pain and inadequacy (Iarskaia-Smirnova and Romanov 2006:230). Keywords: 29(2; anthropology; art; artist; beauty; bodies; body; body art; cultural; culture; difference; disabilities; disability; east; europe; fall; female; femininity; gender; representations; review; women
• In Memoriam: William Francis Kelleher, Jr. by Phillips, Sarah D. (2014) - In Syracuse Bill did research among “diaspora” Catholics, people whose churches have been shut down. Bill Kelleher William Francis (“Bill”) Keywords: anthropology; bill; class; europe; ireland; northern; students; syracuse; university
• Introduction to Special Issue: Global Socialisms and Postsocialisms by Tulbure, Narcis (2009) - Fall 2009 7 West and the forms of knowledge supporting them (Tishkov 1998; Verdery 2002b), to approach critically the politics of knowledge in contemporary Eastern Europe and the unbalanced systems of knowledge production in East and West (Lampland 2000), or to understand better the historicity of colonialism and the significance of postcolonial studies themselves (Hayden 2002a, 2002b). 2 While some of the presentations and discussions drew on examples from outside Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, most of the contributions stayed within the “traditional” focus area of Soyuz, the Research Network for Postsocialist Studies. Keywords: anthropology; east europe; eastern; eastern europe; europe; postsocialism; practices; processes; review; socialist; soviet; studies; union; verdery; war
• Probing the Limits of Internationalism: African Students Confront Soviet Ritual by Matusevich, Maxim (2009) - 25 On another occasion, two African students refused to be part of a long established Soviet practice – an annual dispatch of thousands of Soviet students to work in the countryside during the harvest. Could it be that our students have grown tired of the hypocrisy of Communism and the Soviet system?‖ 30 More trouble brewed in 1964 and 1965, with African students in the USSR frequently reporting racist attacks, fights with Soviet youngsters, and even feeling compelled to ―carry knives for protection.‖ 31 Komsomol officials at Moscow State University (MGU) grudgingly acknowledged several instances of scandalous behavior exhibited by Soviet students but also argued that Africans and other foreigners at MGU had a limited understanding of the selfless and romantic nature of Soviet young men, many of whom preferred the hardship of toil in remote Siberia to the pleasures of Moscow high life. Keywords: 27(2; african; anthropology; anti; black; cultural; east; europe; fall; jazz; moscow; new; review; russian; soviet; soviet union; state; students; union; university; ussr; world; york
• To Make a Bridge: Eurasian Discourse in the Post-Soviet World by Shnirelman, Victor (2009) - And those involved in real policy-making manifest more moderate views; it is this group that sometimes uses Eurasian ideas as an instrument to further their own political designs. Additionally, I will analyze the Armenian and Tajik responses to Turkic Eurasianism. Keywords: anthropology; caucasus; east; eurasian; eurasianism; europe; fall; idea; peoples; project; review; russian; tatar; tatarstan; turkic; world
• Transnational Affiliations, Local Articulations: Consumption and Romani Publics in Bulgaria by Resnick, Elana (2009) - In referencing these films, Bulgarian Romani activists evoke a history of Indian film consumption that draws on nostalgia for a socialist past. Alas, the easiest place for many Roma to find employment in the new economic system is in this emerging, internationally- funded NGO sector. Keywords: activists; american; anthropology; bulgarian; consumption; east; europe; european; fall; films; india; language; music; public; review; romani
• Citizenship Discourse, Globalization, and Protest: A Postsocialist-Postcolonial Comparison by Kideckel, David A. (2009) - The southernmost districts of Cochin and Travancore were formally ruled by native royalty until 1957, though with great British influence, when they joined with Malabar to enter India as Kerala state. However, Kerala protests are more innovative, like the tactic of protestors rolling prone (shayana pradikshanam) on the street or wearing sacred coconut bundles (idumuddi) on one's head while on the march. Keywords: anthropology; citizenship; east; education; europe; fall; globalization; kerala; labor; postcolonial; postsocialist; press; protests; public; review; rights; romania; state; university
• The Cultural Mediation of Transnational Regulations: Competing Institutional Forms for Romanian Mutual Funds by Tulbure, Narcis (2009) - The latter claim that, given the histories of deception on Romanian financial markets and the poor record of law enforcement there, the concern of investors with the security of their money cannot simply be relegated to impersonal rules. Not only do lay investors have more means of controlling the activity of asset managers in the American fund industry, but the issues of corporate governance are treated as an integral part of mutual fund regulations. Keywords: anthropology; asset; capital; capital market; europe; european; forms; funds; investment; investors; market; money; new; regulations; review; romania; securities; state; value
• Passport Troubles: Social Tactics and Places of Informal Transactions in Post-Socialist Albania by Musaraj, Smoki (2009) - The interactions with Besnik and Zenel speak of the advantage that informal public places have over formal ones. Private public places Keywords: 27(2; albania; anthropology; cafés; cash; east; europe; fall; new; people; place; police; public; review; street; time
• Mythical Vision of the City: Kraków as the ‘Pope’s City’ by Niedźwiedź, Anna (2009) - Still, the constant manifestation of a very emotional relationship to the city, as well as the mutual response of the city‟s inhabitants as proud of „our pope‟, created the image of Kraków as the „pope‟s city‟, recalling the long-lasting tradition of the mythologization of Kraków urban space. Fall 2009 Author Email: a.niedzwiedz@iphils.uj.edu.pl Mythical Vision of the City: Kraków as the ‘Pope’s City’1 Anna Niedźwiedź, Jagiellonian University Introduction In April 2005, John Paul II, the pope of the Catholic Church passed away. Keywords: anthropology; city; europe; john; john paul; kraków; national; new; paul; paul ii; polish; pope‟s; space
• Symphonic Secularism: Eastern Orthodoxy, Ethnic Identity and Religious Freedoms in Contemporary Bulgaria by Ghodsee, Kristen (2009) - In order to bring cohesion and legitimacy to the rapidly expanding Bulgarian state in a world dominated by Christianity, Boris I officially adopted the religion in the late ninth century in a calculated diplomatic move to consolidate his power by getting recognition from the Patriarch in Constantinople and the Pope in Rome (Gyuzuzelev 2006; Koev and Bakalov 2006). The article attempts to untangle the meaning of secularism, pluralism, religious freedom and tolerance from the point of view of my informants, with a particular focus on the way that individuals deploy popular understandings of Bulgarian history to justify their personal comprehension of how far the state can go in regulating religiosity in every day life. Keywords: 27(2; anthropology; bulgarian; church; east; europe; fall; history; identity; islam; muslim; new; orthodox; religion; review; rights; secularism; state; western
• Symposium: “Encounters of the Postsocialist Kind: The Movement of Goods and Identities within and Beyond the Former Socialist World” by editor, AEER (2010) - ........... 112 http://Lasl.depaul.edu/Aeer/ Editors-in-chief: Krista Harper and Julie Hemment, Anthropology of East Europe Review, Department of Anthropology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. YlA 01003. International Studies Program, DePaul University. Keywords: anthropology; east; editors; university
• Editors' Notes by Harper, Krista; Hemment, Julie (2007) - We invite you to submit articles on current research projects for the “Open Forum” of our Fall 2007 issue. Kideckel was, of course, writing of state socialism as a development process, but his words strike a special chord with those of us now working on those aspects of social life that have been once again transformed by neoliberal policies and postsocialist development processes—cultural processes fraught with new, unintended consequences and often very large human costs. Keywords: anthropology; europe; journal; research
• Guest Editors’ Introduction: Encounters of the Postsocialist Kind: The Movement of Goods and Identities Within and Beyond the Former Socialist World by Yalçın-Heckmann, Lale; Demirdirek, Hülya (2007) - Mobility All the contributions to this issue relate to the fact that these are new states with new borders. Trajectories The papers in this issue seek to explore questions such as these: to what degree are new types of knowledge necessary in new markets and new market relations? Keywords: anthropology; encounters; goods; greece; issue; markets; migration; movement; new; people; popov; state; trade; world
• From ‘Public’ to ‘Private’ Markets in Postsocialist Mongolia by Pedersen, Morten A. (2007) - More generally, people at Naran Tuul and other markets in Ulaanbaatar feel that they are subject to ‘all sorts of pressure’. The rest ‘all have relatives (hamaatan) and family (ah duu) here’, as this is widely accepted to be the only trouble-free way for traders to enter both the Naran Tuul and other urban markets. Keywords: anthropology; goods; har; market; mongolia; naran; old; people; press; trade; tuul; ulaanbaatar; university; zah
• Unstable Objects: Corpses, Checkpoints and ‘Chessboard Borders’ in the Ferchana Valley by Reeves, Madeleine (2007) - It must be moved and located, and quite how it is emplaced (as deceased relative to whom respect must be paid, as commodity [tovar] that can be let through the border for the appropriate ‘fee’, or as potentially contaminating threat to public health that must be subject to administrative ban) dramatises the variable, and profoundly unequal opportunities that exist for crossing state borders and transporting goods across them. For those living in the borderlands of newly nationalising states, and especially in areas where the location of an international boundary is, or has been, historically contested, this divergence between the cartographic division of national space and the everyday experience of ‘border’ is not merely of academic interest. Keywords: anthropology; border; central; east; europe; ferghana; guards; kyrgyz; kyrgyzstan; land; law; page; people; soviet; state; tajik; university; uzbekistan; valley; volume; way; zulaikho
• Slovenia and its National Winter Pastime: In Pursuit of an Anthropology of Alpine Skiing by Kotnik, Vlado (2007) - Their leading ideas such as “the Slovenian origins of European skiing” (Rajtmajer 1994: 97-101), “the Bloke Plateau as the cradle of Slovenian skiing” (Urbanc 1999: 412-413) and “the revived skiing on wooden skis” (Dolžan Eržen 2004: 124-125) show that the history of Slovenian ski history is still strongly domesticated in the realm of homeland studies and ideology. He was the author of the first documentary film about Slovenian skiing (Badjura, 1931, quoted in Starc 2004:102). Keywords: alpine; anthropology; century; europe; identity; national; people; press; skiers; skiing; slovenian; sport; starc; television; volume; yugoslav
• “Shopaholic” In Eastern Europe: A Guest Editor's Foreword by Ghodsee, Kristen (2006) - I left the store feeling that familiar rush of instant gratification, but there was still a voice inside me that wondered if Bulgaria and Bulgarians were really that much better off because the five percent of the population that could afford to shop in that store and acquisitive American researchers like me could now purchase expensive Western perfumes in Sofia. Paradise Lost: Capitalist Dynamics and Disenchantment in Rural Bulgaria, Anthropology of East Europe Review, Vol. 20. Keywords: anthropology; bulgaria; country; europe; goods; new; sofia
• Aerobics and Self-Asserting Discourses: Mapping the Gendered Body in Post-Socialist Romania by Mîndruţ, Petruţa (2006) - As David Le Breton argues, “body practises are situated at the crossroads where the anthropological necessity of fighting the fragmentation experienced in the self meets with the play of signs (forms, shape, youth, health), that gives a decisive social supplement to any physical activity of choice. There, she sets out to examine “how processes of relocating oneself in a changing world are reflected in body practises and investments in one's looks […] in a society with new possibilities of consumption” (Nordahl Anthropology of East Europe Review Volume 24, No Keywords: aerobics; anthropology; beauty; bodies; body; culture; east; europe; feel; identity; new; review; romania; self; women
• Performing Aging in Post-Soviet Latvia by Kalēja, Jekaterina; Mileiko, Ilze (2016) - A good- looking older person was described in an interview as having tended to her body, while youth is seen as beautiful in itself: Well it works if only you find the right one, then reactions are not wrong, then people... The age of these informants could be the reason why they had a more distanced and critical attitude to older persons. Keywords: age; aging; anthropology; body; care; context; experience; family; informants; interviews; latvia; life; people; performance; person; relationships
• Book Review: Mediterranean Ethnological Summer School, Bostjan Kravanja and Matej Vranjes (eds) by Ballinger, Pam (2006) - Allen Typewritten Text © 2006 Pam Ballinger All Rights Reserved The copyright for individual articles in both the print and online version of the Anthropology of East Europe Review is retained by the individual authors. Launched in 1993, MESS brings together scholars and Slovene anthropology students for intensive discussion (as well as socializing) and, ideally, what editors Bostjan Kravanja and Matej Vranjes deem “the creation of anthropological and ethnological knowledge on the spot” (7). Keywords: anthropology; europe; school; volume
• Guest Editors’ Notes Special Issue on Ethnographies of Czechs, Slovaks, and Sorbs by McCajor Hall, Timothy; Read, Rosie (2005) - Nash analyzes how forms of social security provision for families have helped generate and maintain cultural notions of autonomy and dependency in Czech society. GUEST EDITORS’ NOTES SPECIAL ISSUE ON ETHNOGRAPHIES OF CZECHS, SLOVAKS, AND SORBS Timothy McCajor Hall, University of California at San Diego Rosie Read, University of Glasgow This issue of the Anthropology of Eastern Europe Review grows out of a panel on recent ethnographies from the former Czechoslovakia that was presented at the AAA meeting in 2003.1 In organizing the panel, and during the discussion afterwards, many researchers (particularly younger ones) noted their desire for a forum that would bring together a broad range of recent ethnographic research on the Czech and Slovak Republics. Keywords: anthropology; czech; czechoslovakia; european; press; research; slovak; studies; university
• Correspondence: Reply to Michał Buchowski by Hann, Chris (2005) - Leaving aside such ancient personal history, I am more perturbed by the accusation that the MPI in Halle, where I have worked since 1999, is discriminating against CEE scholars and privileging the work of Westerners. Even though much has changed in recent years, including new forms of fieldwork by CEE scholars, it seems premature to speak of a full disciplinary convergence. Keywords: anthropology; buchowski; cee; scholars; work
• “Forgetting Equals Killing:” Loss and Remembrance of the Missing Children in Post-War Kosovo by Berisha, Rozafa (2017) - Key words: acts of remembrance, political memory, societal forgetting, missing children, Kosovo war Introduction Based on extensive ethnographic research, I particularly focus on the collective engagement and the mechanisms of reformulation and transmission of social memory among the parents of missing children. Keywords: anthropology; collective; east; europe; kosovo; loss; memory; missing; mothers; parents; past; photographs; review; war
• aeer-24604 by None (None) - But I also think that learning something about historical methodology helps one think more deeply about field work as a method. I think it’s important to undertake some degree of philosophical questioning of the nature of the knowledge that anthropological field work can produce, so that should be part of their training as well. Keywords: anthropology; fieldwork; people; research; time; work
• A Utopia of Eurasia: the Uses and Abuses of a Concept – a counter-reply to Chris Hann by Testa, Alessandro (2017) - His arrogance in replying to his peers has actually already been noticed, for instance in relation to an exchange, which also took place in The Anthropology of East Europe Review, between Michał Buchowski and Chris Hann (Buchowski 2004; Hann 2005). This paper should therefore be considered as part of a series consisting of: Hann’s work about the concept of Eurasia until 2016; my aforementioned article; and Hann’s counter-reply and his latest article on the subject.1 While I thank Chris Hann for having engaged with my arguments and provided a reply to my article, I cannot overlook the serious flaws in the line of his argumentation. Keywords: ages; anthropology; article; chris; concept; east; east europe; eurasia; europe; european; hann; history; middle; reply; review; testa; unity
• Anthropology of Europe and Community Re-Studies: Proposal for a New Concerted Research Initiative by Skalník, Peter (2005) - The usual complaints that community studies are not representative of a region or country are weak because the wealth of detail, if replicated by a number of such studies per given territory, is not matched by any other data sets. The most classical area of community studies mostly carried out by non-natives is the Mediterranean, from Spain to Greece. Keywords: anthropologists; anthropology; communities; community; europe; life; new; pardubice; press; redfield; research; roven; skalnik; studies; study; time; university; university press; village; years; york
• Cultures of Consumerism by editor, AEER (2006) - 91 Olga Gurova, European University at SI. Central European University. Keywords: anthropology; europe; review; university
• Contents by editor, AEER (2009) - Page 1 Editor Sarah D. Phillips Robert Rotenberg, Web Editor CONTENTS EDITOR’S NOTES………….……………………………………………………………………………….4 Sarah D. Phillips, Indiana University CALL FOR PAPERS……………………………………….……………………………………….....…….6 ARTICLES LAYERED ENCOUNTERS: PERFORMING MULTICULTURALISM AND THE URBAN PALIMPSEST AT THE ‘GATEWAY OF EUROPE’……………………………………………………….7 Kristof van Assche and Petruţa Teampău PROCESSIONS IN THE STREET: © Indiana University 2009 ISSN: 1054-4720 Keywords: anthropology; east; university
• Editor's Notes by Phillips, Sarah D. (2009) - She examines the restructuring of urban retail spaces from two main perspectives: the everyday consumption experiences of shoppers, and the motives and actions of decision-making power brokers. Of particular interest here are the effects of apparently unregulated hypermarkets (mostly foreign-owned box stores) on consumption practices and urban spaces; Garstka specifically warns of sharpening class inequalities and the formation of dual-cities. Keywords: anthropology; city; postsocialist; review
• Serbia, Betwixt and Between: Culture, Politics and Images of the West by Simic, Andrei (2009) - It is probably no exaggeration to assert that Western popular culture is the single most visible expression of the aspirations of those in Serbia who yearn for inclusion in the West. The acculturative power of Western popular culture has been treated in great detail by Sardar and Davis (2002:104) who cite the hamburger as a seductive novelty symbolic of the way that America is taking over the lives of ordinary people in the rest of the world and shrinking their cultural space. Keywords: american; anthropology; belgrade; culture; east; europe; music; new; nikolic; page; people; public; serbia; tadic; world; york
• Natural Born Farmer. Rural childhood and farm work in eastern Poland by Harasimowicz, Julia (2019) - The Norwegian researcher analyzed the involvement of rural children in their parents’ activities. Social researchers, including Hermann Bausinger, showed that because of the closeness of their parents’ daily tasks and daily lives, rural children choose toys that resemble tools more often than city children pretending to be parents (in: Liebel 2004, 187). Keywords: anthropology; brandth; children; east; education; europe; family; farming; labor; parents; review; women; work
• Farming means headache. Everyday challenges of dairy farms in Podlasie by Sarnacki, Mateusz (2019) - The older generation of milk farmers values a credit-free situation of their activity. Abstract Do external regulations imposed on Podlasie milk farmers limit their agency? Keywords: agency; anthropology; area; east; europe; farmers; farming; farms; interviewees; land; lease; milk; money; podlasie; production; situation
• Ethnography, Art and a Societal Road to Nowhere. The Tear Dealer Project by Rakowski, Tomasz (2019) - Societal road to nowhere 76 Anthropology of East Europe Review 36 (1), 2019 Ethnography, Art and a Societal Road to Nowhere: The Tear Dealer Project Tomasz Rakowski University of Warsaw Introduction In this article I present an ethnographic description of the Tear Dealer socially engaged art project1 conducted by Alicja Rogalska and Łukasz Surowiec, in the town of Lublin, Southeast Poland, in an urban area with high unemployment, full of pawnshops, and loan sharks. Hour after hour, the budget for buying tears was running out – Tear Dealer was supposed to last eight 81 Anthropology of East Europe Review 36 (1), 2019 days, but it only took four to drain the funds. Keywords: action; anthropology; art; dealer; east; europe; people; project; real; tear
• Contents by editor, AEER (2005) - 79 Vera Sokolova, Charles University PORNOGRAPHY, PRIMITIVES AND POSTSOCIALIST SLOV AKIA ............................................................................ 15I Leos Satava, Institute of Ethnology, Charles University SECTION IV: MEMORY, HISTORY, AND THE ETHNOGRAPHIC PRESENT TELLING LIVES. Keywords: anthropology; charles; czech; ethnology; phd; republic; university
• Contents by editor, AEER (2006) - A LONG TERM PERSPECTIVE………………….51 Tanya Boneva, Sofia University, Sofia, Bulgaria ‘WE ARE BESSARABIANS HERE’: IDENTITY, TRADITION AND POWER IN SOUTHERN BESSARABIA……..59 Ekaterina Anastassova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria Anthropology of East Europe Review Volume 24, No. 1, Spring 2006 Page 2 OPEN FORUM SCIENCE, CYNICISM, AND THE GREATER GOOD: IDENTITY AND ENVIRONMENTAL DISCOURSE IN POLAND………………………………………………………….….66 Tracie L. Wilson, Indiana University, Bloomington CHEMICAL WEAPONS AND TRANSNATIONAL COMMUNITY: Sarah D The Anthropology of East Europe Review: Central Europe, Eastern Europe and Eurasia VOLUME 24, Number 1 Spring 2006 1 Editors Krista Harper Julie Hemment Robert Rotenberg, Web Editor CONTENTS EDITORS’ INTRODUCTION: “ANTHROPOLOGY OF EASTERN EUROPE: FILLING THE GAPS IN GLOBAL ATTENTION?”……………………………………………………………………………………….4 Krista Harper and Julie Hemment, University of Massachusetts, Amherst CALL FOR PAPERS.................................................................................................................................................................5 SYMPOSIUM: “BESSARABIAN BORDERLANDS: ONE REGION, TWO STATES, MULTIPLE ETHNICITIES” GUEST EDITOR’S NOTE……………………………………………………………………………………………………6 Deema Kaneff, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle, Germany & Monica Heintz, University of Paris X- Nanterre ECONOMIC AND TRADE BORDERS: Keywords: anthropology; east; europe; university
• Editors' Introduction: “Anthropology of Eastern Europe: Filling the Gaps in Global Attention?" by Harper, Krista; Hemment, Julie (2006) - Papers should be no more than 2,500-6,000 words (including endnotes and references) and conference reviews should be 300-800 words in length. CALL FOR PAPERS FALL 2006 ISSUE OF THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF EAST EUROPE REVIEW The editors solicit articles and conference review essays for the Fall 2006 issue’s “Open Forum,” “Reviews,” and “Teaching” sections. Keywords: anthropology; countries; media; news; zuckerman
• Reflections on Teaching Anthropology through the Case Study by Phillips, Sarah D. (2006) - This means that earlier works and discussions of historical intellectual trends often do not find their way into anthropology courses. Undergraduate students were majors in the following disciplines: History (with a focus on Russia), Communication and Culture (specializing in film), General Studies, Theater, Biology, Anthropology, SPEA and International Studies, and Environmental Science. Keywords: anthropology; chernobyl; course; seminar; students; teaching
• Contents by editor, AEER (2004) - How could the anthropological literature be married to post-colonial literature with or without a divorce? Phone 413-545-2221; Fax: 413-545-9494; Email: kharper@anthro.umass.edu or jhemment@anthro.umass.edu. AEER 2005 ISSN: 1054-4720 Call For Papers The Anthropology of East Europe Review Guest editor for AEER's Fall 2005 issue is looking for anthropologically informed papers based on ethnographic field research conducted in Central and Eastern Europe. Keywords: anthropology; europe; papers
• Hierarchies of Knowledge in Central-Eastern European Anthropology by Buchowski, Michal (2004) - The essence and irony of all these traits of Western anthropological studies on CEE is that these were exactly the arguments 5 The cited page of the project can be found at http://www.inv.si/hesp/project.htm. ascribed by Western anthropologists to nationalist ethnologies in Eastern Europe. The body of indigenous scholarly production inherent in her and other Western anthropologists’ publications is conspicuously low. Keywords: anthropologists; anthropology; authors; cee; central; eastern; european; hann; ideas; scholars; studies; text; time; west
• Contents by editor, AEER (2008) - Page 1 Editor Sarah D. Phillips Guest Editors Hilary Pilkington Anton Popov Robert Rotenberg, Web Editor CONTENTS EDITOR’S NOTES………….……………………………………………………………………………….5 Sarah D. Phillips, Indiana University CALL FOR PAPERS……………………………………….……………………………………….....…….6 SPECIAL ISSUE: “CULTURAL PRODUCTION AND TRANSMISSION OF ETHNIC TOLERANCE AND PREJUDICE” GUEST EDITORS’ © Indiana University 2008 ISSN: 1054-4720 http://las1.depaul.edu/Aeer/� mailto:anthroeasteuropereview@gmail.com� mailto:rrotenbe@wppost.depaul.edu� Marina Elbakidze, Caucasus Institute for Peace, Democracy and Development Keywords: anthropology; east; review
• Guest Editors’ Introduction: Cultural Production and Transmission of Ethnic Tolerance and Prejudice by Pilkington, Hilary; Popov, Anton (2008) - Here we provide a brief, critical review of two models of multi-ethnic societies envisaged and implemented in the twentieth century before outlining their common failings and presenting an alternative approach. Another example might be the situation in the Georgian capital Tbilisi during the Soviet period described by Elbakidze (in this volume) when generally tolerant relationships between members of different groups coexisted alongside ethnic stereotypes which conveyed a functional hierarchy of ethnic groups constraining them within a particular professional/social niche in society. Keywords: anthropology; culture; eds; ethnicity; europe; london; multiculturalism; new; people; post; press; society; soviet; state; understanding; volume; youth
• Xenophobic Attitudes and New Russian Patriotism: A Case Study of Youth in Krasnodar Territory by Omel’chenko, Elena; Goncharova, Natal’ia (2008) - As a result of confrontations between the former ‘brothers and sisters’ of the Soviet Union, the threat of ‘revolutions’ (of various colours);iii the popularity of xenophobic, extreme nationalistic views among young people and the active, spontaneous search for a unifying national idea; public activists, politicians and social scientists have been forced to direct some of their attention away from the political elite towards society’s ground-level social agents (ordinary citizens). However, it remains unclear what is being labeled ‘correct’ (or conversely ‘deviant’) behaviour for young people while the spread of patriotic sentiment ‘from the top down’ encourages the growth of xenophobia. Keywords: anthropology; attitudes; groups; informants; krasnodar; national; people; public; region; research; russian; skinheads; sochi; territory; volume; xenophobia; years; youth
• aeer-31747 by None (None) - The first part “From Subjects to Agents of History: Political Implications of Oral Historical Research” contains three chapters depicting the political connotations of oral history research in Germany, Poland, Finland and the Russian Federation. Rozalia Cherepanova, basing her chapter on 132 biographic interviews recorded in Chelabinsk, Russian Federation, emphasizes the ethical and methodological challenges of conducting oral history research and interpreting the interviews. Keywords: anthropology; communist; europe; history; past; research
• Contents by editor, AEER (2004) - Performing Identity in a Transylvanian-Romanian Folkdance Ensemble Amy C. Mills, University of Oregon 51 Transylvanian Dancing in the Final Hour Wayne B. Kraft, Eastem Washington University 61 Reviving Moldova: Social and Political Dimensions of Contemporary Folkloric Performances Jennifer R. Cash, Indiana University 77 Broadcasting Ethnonational Exclusion and Inclusion: Two Musicians in Two Croatias Dickie Wallace, University of i'y1assachusetts, Amherst 85 The Challenges of Applied Ethnology in Croatia Tvrtko Zebec, Institute ofEthnology and Folklore Research, Zagreb, Croatia 93 (Com) Passionately Political: Music of Djordje Balasevic Brana Mijatovic, University of California, Los Angeles 103 Turbo Folk and Dance Music in 1990s Serbia: Media, Ideology and the Production of Spectacle Ivana Kronja, University o.fArts, Belgrade 115 Explorations on the Move: Dance in the Republic of Macedonia Gaelyn Aguilar, University ofSouthern Calffomia 125 Signifying Selfin Plural Cultural Contexts: American Women Singing Bulgarian Songs Jamie Lynn Webster, University of Oregon -------------THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF EAST EUROPE REVIEW------------­ Volume 22 • Number 1 • Sprillg 2004 Keywords: anthropology; east; europe; issue; university
• Subversive heteroglossia:: Narrating Greek-Albanian language use in North-Western Greece by Zheltova, Ekaterina; Vaxevanou, Theodora ; Manousopoulou, Μariana; Kalogianni, Despina (2022) - We assume that when the discourses of Anthropology of East Europe Review 38 (1), 2021 90 homogeneity are dominant, and mistrust towards diversity expressions is shared, the pragmatic dimension of language use paradoxically becomes the safe space to express affectivity linked with language. In both of them, switching between Albanian and Greek language has been, paradoxically, at the same time normalized and contested throughout different historical periods and among different social situations. Keywords: albanian; anthropology; arvanitika; border; greek; intimacy; konitsa; language; local; people; research; review; state
• The Last Dance by Kürti, László (2004) - All this was made in the name of socialist progress and modernization where village dances and dancing events slowly became the preserves of folk dance ensembles. Village dance forms were reconcep- tualized as broken or simplistic fragments of high-culture ballet. Keywords: anthropology; bachelor; body; church; community; culture; dance; dancing; east; europe; events; hungarian; kürti; life; men; national; new; press; protestant; region; review; romania; state; time; university; village; women; zsobok
• Reviving Moldova: Social and Political Dimensions of Contemporary Folkloric Performances by Cash, Jennifer R. (2004) - The recent focus on creating authentic folkloric ensembles, and festivals and competitions in which they compete, is certainly a reactionary discourse. In other words, how are folkloric performance genres defined in relation to other performance genres, and can their activities be tracked or standardized by the state? Keywords: anthropology; children; culture; dance; east; ensembles; europe; folklore; folkloric; identity; moldova; music; number; performance; politics; review; romanian; soviet; state
• Broadcasting Ethnonational Exclusion and Inclusion: Two Musicians in Two Croatias by Wallace, Dickie (2004) - When Croatian forces took back the Kninska Krajina region on 6 August 1995, one of the first things the government did was re-establish Radio Knin, but this time under the name Hrvatski Radio Knin—Croatian Radio Knin, within the HRT system. Radio Knin journalists knew how the international aide community members often saw the world in black-and-white and realized that anyone praising Thompson would be looked down upon. Keywords: anthropology; croatian; europe; franci; istria; italian; knin; krajina; media; music; people; pula; radio; station; thompson
• (Com)Passionately Political: Music of Djordje Balasević by Mijatovic, Brana (2004) - Of his enormously large opus, space permits me to concentrate only on four examples that would illustrate the variety of ways in which songs of Djordje Balasević were “(com)passionately political.” [most prominently in songs “Sloboda-ne”( 1992), “Legeʹda o Gedi Gluperdi” (1998)]; the collective responsibility [in “Krivi smo mi” (1993)]; and the war [in “Čovek sa mesecom u očima” (1993)]. Keywords: anthropology; balasević; djordje; east; europe; fault; geda; krivi; milosević; music; number; people; regime; review; smo; song; volume; war; yugoslavia
• Explorations on the Move: Dance in the Republic of Macedonia by Aguilar, Gaelyn (2004) - The whole place is a visual documentation of Orce Nikolov’s accomplishments as a world-class ambassador of Macedonian folk song and folk dance, and in that sense, the documentation is also a testament to the ensemble’s respected position within the hierarchy of dance ensembles within the Republic of Macedonia. Part One of what follows, an ethnographic essay entitled, “Program Notes for Choreographing Corporealities,” serves as the launching ground from which I address this gloss, and state my case for encouraging a new stage in the writ- ten representation of folk dance in Eastern Europe. Keywords: anthropology; dance; dancers; east; europe; folk; folk dance; folklore; macedonia; music; new; people; politics; savigliano; stage
• Place-making, Politics and Borderscapes in Southeastern Europe by Carnevale , Davide N.; Wilson, Thomas M. (2022) - Contemporary social researchers, including anthropologists, often have to come to terms with political borders which have been recognized as weakened, more porous to forces which also shape the state institutions themselves. Reflections about borderscaping, then, Anthropology of East Europe Review 38 (1), 2021 11 aim at inserting processuality directly into the material existence of political borders, correcting the paradox for which the spatial turn in social sciences hesitates in embracing geographical grammars and social theories based on territoriality. Keywords: anthropology; borderlands; borders; boundaries; east; east europe; europe; european; identity; issue; life; making; new; place; politics; power; region; research; review; space; state; studies; study; thomas; wilson
• Contents by editor, AEER (2003) - 23 Diana R. Blank, University of California at Berkeley ............................................................................................ University of Michigan ........................................................................................................... 37 COLONIAL CONTEXT ....................................................................................................................................................... 41 David Koester, University of Alaska Fairbanks ..................................................................................................... 41 DEATH AND THE DESECRATED: ~,mNUMENTS OF THE SOCIALIST PAST It, POST-1989 BULGARIA ............ Keywords: anthropology; europe; review; university
• Contents by editor, AEER (2003) - I. Spring, 2003 Editors Robert Rotenberg Barbara West Nallcy Ries El'll IIuseby-Darvas iUatti BUl1Zl CONTENTS SPECIAL ISSUE: FOOD AND FOODWA YS IN POSTSOCIALIST EURASIA MANAGING EDITOR'S NOTES: ............................................................................................................................ 4 Robert Rotenberg DePaul UniYersity EDITORS' NOTES: FOOD AND FOODWA YS IN FOOD AND FOODWA YS IN POSTSOCIALIST EURASIA ........... Keywords: anthropology; europe; food; illinois; university
• Nature, Narod and Emotion: Engaging Socialist Realism and the Arts in Kyrgyzstan by Pritchard, Maureen (2013) - According to Alexei Alexandrovich art served the purpose of ―raising the status of the human being above that Anthropology of East Europe Review 31 (1) Spring 2013 13 of skotina‖, a domesticated farm animal that tramples everything underfoot: ―Music, like books, has the ability to raise a person‘s consciousness or destroy it. The information presented on Alexei Alexandrovich is a synthesis of informal conversations held between October 2011 and June 2012 as part of a larger research project. Keywords: alexandrovich; alexei; alexei alexandrovich; anthropology; art; composer; east; europe; kyrgyz; kyrgyzstan; music; new; people; project; review; soviet; spring; world
• Editor's Notes by Phillips, Sarah D. (2013) - The breadth and richness of scholarship contributed by AEER authors to socio-cultural anthropology and related research fields is evidenced in the impressive line-up of special issue sections published since 2008: From exploring the historico-socio-political meanings of the Lithuanian national dish called zeppelins (Diana Mincyte, Vol. 29, No. 2) to critically examining patriotic youth education in Russia at multi-ethnic summer camps (Giorgio Comai, Vol. 30, No. 1) to untangling the complexities of feminist movements in Ukraine (Jessica Zychowicz, Vol. 29, No. 2 on FEMEN), AEER authors are exploring ethnographically the complex landscapes and nooks and crannies of postsocialist experience. Keywords: aeer; anthropology; journal
• Spiritual Assistance During Two Refugee Crises in the Republic of Macedonia by Muhić, Maja (2013) - Keywords: spiritual assistance, refugee crisis, Islamic literature, piousness, religion, sense of belonging Some anthropological perspectives on religion and their relevance to the current case study Discussing any aspect of spiritual assistance in times of crisis opens a vast array of questions, the first one being clearly related to defining spirituality, but from the delicate lens of someone going through a crisis. During the Kosovo and Bosnian refugee crisis, Logos A published a great variety of Islamic literature in order to support those refugees in overcoming the calamity they experienced. Keywords: allah; anthropology; assistance; crisis; east; europe; kosovo; kosovo crisis; lectures; macedonia; people; publishing; refugees; religion; spring; support
• Visual methods in teaching sociology of public sphere in Russia by Iarskaia-Smirnova, Elena (2013) - And vice versa: if sociology students can go out of the academy into various public settings where they can talk with and hopefully understand the perspectives of a wide range of people, they will bring more diverse social experience and observations to their study of professional sociology (Persell 2009:215, 216). Anthropology of East Europe Review 31 (1) Spring 2013 31 Increasing capacity to deconstruct the content/context of production and to appreciate the potential of visual sociology as more then illustration Following Marcus Banks (2001), we shall adopt a dual perspective on visual media, which includes two dimensions of analysis: the content and the context. Keywords: anthropology; east; europe; images; issues; learning; methods; public; research; review; society; sociology; sphere; spring; students; teaching
• Contents by Editor, AEER (2002) - 67 Zsuzsa Gille, University of IlJinois, Urbana-Champaign A WESTERN BODY FOR THE RUSSIAN WOMAN: SHAPING GENDER IDENTITY IN MODERN WOMEN'S MAGAZINES ........................................................................................ , .............................................................................. 75 Olga Kalacheva European University at St. Petersburg TRANSFORMATIONS IN EMBODIED LIFECOURSES: HUNGARIAN WOMEN IN THE 1990S ............................... Matti Bunzl, (EEAG), Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois at Urbana­ Champaign, 1 09 Davenport Hall, 607 S. Matthews, Urbana, IL 61801; Email: bunzl@uiuc.edu. Keywords: anthropology; email; europe; university
• Contents by Editor, AEER (2002) - Capitalism and Socialism as Conflicting Cultural Models in Nicaraguan Politics ................ 31 Bradley Tatar, University at Albany Selling oneself, selling the nation: Translating Slovaks for the eyes of Europe .................... Barbara West, (EEAG) Department of Anthropology, University of the Pacific, Stockton CA. 95211 Keywords: anthropology; editor; email; university
• Contents by Editor, AEER (2007) - Microsoft Word - Table of Contents and Intro Formatted.doc Anthropology of East Europe Review Volume 25, No. 2 Page 1 ANTHROPOLGY OF EAST EUROPE REVIEW Editors Krista Harper Julie Hemment Robert Rotenberg, Web Editor Krista Hegberg and Yasar Abu Ghosh, Guest Editors CONTENTS EDITORS’ NOTES………..................................................................................................................................................................3 Krista Harper and Julie Hemment, University of Massachusetts, Amherst CALL FOR PAPERS IGAN OTHER Shannon Woodcock, School of Historical and European Studies, La Trobe University, Canada……………………....28 HIDDEN HISTORY: PERCEPTIONS OF THE ROMANI HOLOCAUST IN ROMANIA VIEWED THROUGH CONTEMPORARY RACE RELATIONS………………………………………………….….………………………………….44 Michelle Kelso, Department of Sociology, University of Michigan PHOTO-ESSAY: THE ROMA OF SLOVAKIA ……………………………..……………..…………………………………….62 Julie Denesha, Documentary Photographer, Merriam, Kansaa THE POLITICS OF THE CENSUS: OF GYPSIES, ROMS, AND EGYPTIANS ………..…..……………………………...…..67 Eben Friedman, European Centre for Minority Issues, Flensburg, Germany ETHNOMUSICOLOGY AND ADVOCACY RESEARCH: Keywords: anthropology; review; university
• Editors' Notes by Harper, Krista; Hemment, Julie (2007) - Anthropology of East Europe Review Volume 26, No. 1 Page 4 Editors-in-chief: Krista Harper and Julie Hemment, Anthropology of East Europe Review, Department of Anthropology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003. The decree was passed in response to a murder case in which a Romanian Roma man was a suspect. Keywords: anthropology; east; review; roma
• Wine mafia and the thieving state: tension and power at the crossroads of neoliberalism and authoritarianism in 21st century Macedonia by Otten, Justin (2013) - This has been characterized by the shift from government-owned wineries and purchasing, to the creation and distribution of subsidies paid to both grape buyers (wineries) and sellers (grape growers). First, if grape growers give their grapes to random buyers in cash then they can’t get subsidies. Keywords: anthropology; country; east; europe; government; grape; growers; macedonia; power; privatization; region; state; tikveš; transition; wine; wineries; work
• Contents by Editor, AEER (2000) - © DePaul University 200 I ISSN: 1054-4720 - ..................................... Barbara West, Anthropology, WPC 101, University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA 95211­ 0001; Email: bwest@uop.edu Matti Bunzl, (EEAG), Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois at Urbana­ Champaign, 1 09 Davenport Hall, 607 S. Matthews, Urbana, IL 61801; Email: bunzl@uiuc.edu. Keywords: anthropology; email; page; review; university
• Towards an Anthropology of Governance by Wolfe, Thomas C. (2000) - This perspective on the western present as being an unfolding site of a multiplicity of projects of liberal governance is an important starting point for turning to the transformations of the societies of ‘89. But today, ethnographers of post-socialist states have to ask themselves questions that anthropologists of other parts of the world have been asking themselves for a while now, what sort of sense to do we seek from studies that ultimately define their object in terms of a geographically defined space or territory? Keywords: anthropology; century; eastern; europe; governance; societies; soviet; space; state
• Ruling vs. Dialogical Relations: NGOs, Women, and Institutional Power in Anti-Trafficking Campaigns in Russia and Ukraine by Shapkina, Nadia (2010) - What is the nature of institutional politics of women helping women in anti-trafficking NGOs? During this research, I conducted participant observation in anti-trafficking NGOs, document analysis of NGOs’ reports, forms, and published materials, as well as interviews with anti-trafficking activists and returned or repatriated female victims of sex trafficking who received social assistance in IOM rehabilitation centers and non-governmental organizations in different regions of Russia and Ukraine.3 When analyzing interviews, I paid special attention to institutional practices and categories applied in relation to their clients, and institutional effects on women’s lives and subjectivities. Keywords: 28(1; anthropology; east; europe; ngos; relations; review; shelter; trafficking; ukraine; victims; women; work
• Why Polish Sobótka , Palant and Jawor Remained only Local Polish Traditions: Preserving National Heritage through the Traditional Games by Bronikowska, Małgorzata (2010) - With his passion for Polish traditional plays and games Piasecki began his ‘life research’ on ludic and Sport Ethnology). First ball game... Keywords: 28(1; anthropology; ball; east; education; europe; games; palant; physical; piasecki; plays; poland; polish; review; ritual; spring; world
• Gender Distinctions in an Egalitarian Society: The Case of Evenki People of the Baikal Region by Safonova, Tatiana; Sántha, István (2010) - Other Evenki women who feel manakan, either as a result of intoxication or as a sign of freedom from concrete personal commitments, also look patsanka at these times. In this sense, Nadia feels manakan, and this feeling is not gendered—it is equally shared by other Evenki men and women. Keywords: anthropology; autonomy; distinctions; east; europe; evenki; example; gender; manakan; nadia; organization; people; relationships; review; women
• Methods and Approaches in Research on the Changing Gender System in the North and Northwestern Regions of the Russian Federation by Pushkareva, Natalia (2010) - Formally, women in Russia are granted the right to break family relations at will, and, in practice, many women initiate divorces. This conclusion is true for many women and many professional spheres, including the academic sphere (surveys and in- depth interviews with female scientific workers of different generations confirm this hypothesis; cf. Keywords: anthropology; children; countries; east; europe; fall; family; federation; gender; level; percent; review; russia; system; women; women‟s
• aeer-947 by None (None) - According to this view, the highlanders of Georgia – including the Khevsurs and other Georgian highlanders – could be regarded as Christians only nominally. ISBN: 978-3- 89586-328-8 (hard cover) Shorena Kurtsikidze & Vakhtang Chikovani University of California, Berkeley In the Anthropology of East Europe Review 28 (1) (Spring 2010), Professor Paul Manning wrote a review on the collaborative publication named above. Keywords: anthropology; georgian; highlanders; publication; review

• Global Postsocialism on a Local Scale: The Soviet Migrants at Karelia and Their Past by Melnikova, Ekaterina (2009) - Conclusions The lifestyles of local people in the territory of the former Finnish Karelia have changed since the mid 1990s. They consider themselves the keepers of Finnish heritage rather than its actual owners. Keywords: europe; fall; finnish; finns; history; karelia; migrants; new; people; postsocialism; review; soviet; war
• Ecological Community: Pogroms, Peat Bogs and the Zapust Festival by Blavascunas, Eunice (2009) - Notes 1 The peat bog has traditionally served many functions for village communities, including thatch for roofing, grazing land, peat, heating wood and timbers from the forested area, and hay for cattle. 2 They believe that rural communities have lived and can continue to live in harmony with nature. Keywords: activists; community; europe; festival; gross‟; marsh; national; nature; nature activists; peasant; people; poland; polish; stoczek; village
• Romani Routes. Cultural Politics & Balkan Music in Diaspora (Silverman) by Tesăr, Cătălina (2015) - The phenomenon of Balkan music merges appropriation of Romani music by non-Roma celebrity patrons with social marginalization of the Roma. The book seeks to demonstrate that Balkan music, a fusion of Balkan beats and Gypsy music, is not merely an art. Keywords: balkan; music; people; romani
• Crossing Borders, Shifting Identities: Transnationalism, ‘Materialisation’, and Commoditisation of Greek Ethnicity in Post-Soviet Russia by Popov, Anton (2007) - Since the foundation of the independent Greek state in 1830, Greek national identity has been based on a combination of two different principles: 1) the ‘civic model’ of the nation as a state and people who live in its territory, and 2) the ‘ethnic model’, which represents the Greek nation as a community of ethnic Greeks. The formal requirements of citizenship and visa regimes are fulfilled or overcome by the Greek migrants using informal approaches and connections which include local Greek organisations, friends and family. Keywords: citizenship; consulate; documents; ethnicity; greece; greek; identity; migrants; migration; national; organisations; passport; people; russian; society; soviet; state; visas
• Equipment and Changing Outdoor Culture in the Czech Republic by Kvasnička, Tomáš (2007) - Whether worn for pragmatic reasons or for the sake of Bourdieu’s distinction (1984) or, most likely, a combination of both, the current scale of the use of outdoor equipment and garments is the most evident expression of the ongoing transformation of Czech outdoor culture. Expressed in the relevant theoretical vocabulary, outdoor equipment provides affordances for outdoor pursuits. Keywords: activities; culture; czech; equipment; europe; leisure; market; outdoor; people; praha; pursuits; socialist; society; sport; time; turistika; values
• Veering Toward Radicalism: A Case Study on the Increase of the Popular Support for Organized Radical Movements in Poland by Skalska, Alexsandra (2007) - Gauging the possibilities Political party preferences in Poland change like a kaleidoscope. For example, Douglas Holmes, an anthropologist who has studied radical groups in UK and France, sees it as a result of two interrelated phenomena, that of the political and economic integration of the sovereign countries into the European Union project, and “fast capitalism. Keywords: lpr; parties; party; people; poland; polish; research; respondents; support
• Of Gloss, Glitter and Lipstick: Fashion, Femininity and Wealth in Post-Socialist Urban Bulgaria by Ranova, Elitza (2006) - Other women, who live on far more modest budgets, do what one of my informants did: buy a single accessory, in this particular case, a brown leather purse with strips of fur attached to it, or a couple of garments, which allow them to pay homage to the style without buying an entire outfit. Hristina, Nadia and other women that I have talked to insist that success for a woman means something more than a comfortable life and even access to luxury. Keywords: bulgaria; colors; europe; family; fashion; group; image; life; mutressi; nadia; people; self; style; united; wealth; women
• Contentious Discourses Surrounding Supermarkets in Post-Soviet Bishkek by Botoeva, Aisalkyn (2006) - Establishment of Supermarkets It is important to clarify what kind of shopping places are considered to be supermarkets in Bishkek. Along with their civilizing mission, Bishkek supermarkets turned out to symbolize social inequality, and also demonstrate to the wide poor public that they are excluded from the circles of more affluent citizens through their shopping experiences. Keywords: bishkek; city; development; europe; malls; new; owners; people; places; politicians; public; respondents; shopping; state; supermarkets
• Telling Lives. Autobiography and History After Socialism by Haukanes, Haldis (2005) - All the informants reported something about their childhood and about parents and siblings before they moved on to schooling and working lives, marriage, and own children. Life mstories are , of course, reconstructions of lived lives and therefore limited as sources of info~ation a~out :vhat. Keywords: accounts; communist; events; history; informants; life; lives; memory; party; people; south; state
• Ethnic Identity, Language Attitudes, and the Reception of Culture among Students of Sorbian Schools by Šatava, Leoš (2005) - 24 “Budyscy dwurěčni wotrostli … wjesni so boja … imitěruja, zo su Němcy … nochcedźa być hinaši …” Jen Typewritten Text 156 – With respect to intergeneration shift: compared to their parents, the feeling of double identity of the present-day young generation seems to grow stronger, and the significance of “Sorbian factors” in the sense of “language intimacy” (Haugen 1972: 325) seems to grow weaker. – With respect to the comparison of data on the respondents from the SGS and SMSs: on average, data indicate a higher level of (declared) Sorbian ethnic identity, a stronger relationship to Sorbian (as against a weaker relationship to German), and general concern for the maintenance of Sorbian phenomena among the A-students of the SGS. In my numerous questionnaire investigations conducted at the Sorbian schools in Upper Lusatia between 1996 and 2001, I concentrated mainly on the ethnic identity of the respondents, their choice of the code and domains of use of either Sorbian or German, Jen Typewritten Text 151 their attitudes to both languages, and on acceptance of Sorbian identity among young Sorbs aged 11 to 19. Keywords: budyšin; culture; german; identity; language; lusatia; people; sgs; sorbian; sorbs; students; use
• Memory, Space, and Time Perceptions in a Postsocialist Village of Southern Slovakia by Torsello, Davide (2005) - The order did not seem to matter; what mattered was that all these objects had been jealously kept by village families who finally had found the courage to expose them pUblicly. I Embodied signs of memory Another expression of how village people I choose to remember today has to do with the way people are categorized and addressed on the basis of their past deeds and present I qualities. Keywords: families; family; hungarian; land; memory; past; people; period; socialist; time; village; villagers
• Czechs in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Their Social Activities by Uherek, Zdeněk; Plochová, Kateřina (2005) - He was not of Czech origin but had leanings towards the Czech Republic and also had good business relations with it, for trams bought in the Czech Republic were used in Sarajevo. For the gatherings, they have been using a newly renovated Czech clubhouse, a one-storey building the size of a family house, including a social hall, reconstructed with a contribution from the Czech Republic. Keywords: areas; bosnia; czech; empire; herzegovina; members; minority; muslim; number; origin; people; republic; sarajevo; society; text; towns; war
• The Local and the Global: In Search of European Identity in the Czech Local Community by Horáková, Hana (2007) - In terms of cultural Europe, are there any initIatIves coming from the bottom any commonalities, anything that really shapes the 'taste' of Europeans? Nor is it clear how European culture might be nurtured and diffused. Keywords: community; culture; european; identity; life; national; people; process; research; village
• Layered Encounters: Performing Multiculturalism and the Urban Palimpsest at the ‘Gateway of Europe' by van Assche, Kristof; Teampău, Petruţa (2009) - Sulina narratives speak of a strong desire for unity and harmony, for an absence of difference, in this case disguised as an unproblematic coexistence of difference. Sulina residents have many concerns; their ethnic belonging and interethnic encounters are not high on their agendas. Keywords: ced; city; danube; european; groups; identity; landscape; memory; multiculturalism; myth; narrative; people; space; sulina; urban
• The Guest at the Dining Table: Economic Transitions and the Reshaping of Hospitality—Reflections from Batumi and Odessa by Polese, Abel (2009) - What is the gain of forcing guests to accept more food than they can swallow? In addition, if a person is perceived as a prestigious guest in a particular setting, hosting this person will become a source of prestige for the household that hosted him or her, so that receiving guests might increase the respectability and reputation of the house and thus of its occupants (Cole 2006, Visser 1991, Zanca 2003). Keywords: batumi; europe; food; guest; hospitality; host; house; odessa; people; person; relationship; rituals; time; way
• Border-Crossing as a Strategy of Daily Survival: The Odessa-Chisinau Elektrichka by Polese, Abel (2006) - As one informant complained, border officers were capable of asking for anything they could take, and another reported the following conversation: - “Do you have, by chance, a dollar?” - “No!” - “A tomato?” - “ ...No!” - “A cucumber?” Border officers are also quite happy as they can receive some benefits and top up their salary, something they do out of necessity, living in one of the most depressed areas of the region. Keywords: border; case; chisinau; corruption; economy; elektrichka; goods; moldova; odessa; people; soviet; state; station; train; transdnistrian; ukraine
• ‘We are Bessarabians Here’: Identity, Tradition and Power in Southern Bessarabia by Anastassova, Ekaterina (2006) - The material culture of Slavic population of Danube river: village Mirnoe, Kilya district, Odessa area. Unfortunately, the dreams of an alternative to globalization and Ukraine state nationalism had not come true. Keywords: derevencha; head; identity; mirnoe; nationalism; new; people; state; ukraine; ukrainian; village
• Drinking and Nostalgia: Social Imagination in Postsocialist Romania by Tulbure, Narcis S. (2006) - Overall, the inhabitants of Caracal and the neighboring villages hold that alcohol consumption has increased during the postsocialist period and drinking has become more visible. During socialism, alcohol production, distribution and consumption were subject to a large number of laws, decrees and regulations; the overall approach to alcohol was subsumed under state policies aimed at creating a communist new man. Keywords: alcohol; consumption; drinking; economy; new; nostalgia; past; people; postsocialist; practices; present; romania; state; time
• Sakha Pop Music-A Celebration of Consuming by Ventsel, Aimar (2006) - The youthful part of Sakha music is popsa which means in Russian , pop music. By the time I met local DJ-s, artists and promoters, made friends in the music scene, and visited many local clubs and other music involved events. Keywords: artists; clothes; culture; elite; fashion; groups; music; new; people; republic; rock; russian; sakha; videos; yakutsk
• A Case of Cultural Colonization: Leave Our Death Alone! by Popoveniuc, Bogdan (2004) - The ‘lightness’ of Being is just the expression of freedom, almost of the exuberance captured in Romanian vision. But the ’adhesion’ of the entire people to this folklore masterpiece remains significant and the history of Romanian culture cannot be conceived without the exegesis of this solidarity. Keywords: ballad; death; eliade; language; life; miorita; noica; people; romanian; shepherd; world
• Cultural and Political Construction of Romani Ethnic Differences in Romological Discourse on Roma in Slovenia by Spreizer, Alenka Janko (2004) - What did take place was the criminalization of Roma immigrants from Croatia in the border areas of Prekmurje (while the remaining Romani immigrants to Maribor and Ljubljana were mentioned only in passing), their culture, however, was not a subject of in-depth Romological studies. Furthermore, Slovenian Roma are also claimed to be unique mostly because of their language and their own specific ethnic culture. Keywords: culture; discourse; eds; groups; gypsies; immigrants; ljubljana; minority; people; roma; romani; romology; slovenia; studies
• Postsocialism, or What? Domestication of Power and Ideology in Slovenia by Šumi, Irena (2004) - […] We have to follow our own general civilizational imperatives or face a fate of national extinction.13 The adjective ‘civilizational’ has since become widely used to denote anything perceived non-Slovenian and non-cultured, its explanatory powers all but exhausted. Special thanks goes to Drago Braco Rotar and Taja Kramberger with whom I spent long hours debating the issues of the very elusive Slovenian genius loci. Keywords: civilizational; community; identity; jen; mladina; national; people; postsocialism; public; slovenian; state; yugoslavia
• Some Notes on Socialism and Postsocialism: Voices from Within by Văcărescu, Theodora Eliza (2004) - Although it is not clear who would be the Franz Fanon of this corpus, his or her forerunners surely include the East European dissidents and other scholars - people like Rudolph Bahro, Pavel Câmpeanu, György Konrád, János Kornai, István Rév, Jadwiga Staniszkis and Iván Szelény - whose writing spurred us to seek an understanding of socialism different from that offered by Cold War categories, even if we now perceive deficiencies in their view of it. Yet for both postsocialist and postcolonial studies, as anthropologists we ought to [my emphasis] insist on broadening the category of ‘native’ to incorporate the understandings of people who have less privileged positions in their societies than do those I have just mentioned. Keywords: communist; land; people; period; post; revolution; rostás; years
• Both War and Peace in the ‘Country of the Soul’: The Young People of Abkhazia on War, Tradition, and Independence by Sabirova, Guzel (2008) - The humanitarian programmes developed on the basis of such documents aim to facilitate the psychological, economic or social rehabilitation of young people who have been drawn into military conflict or who simply find themselves in post-conflict societies. The youth of Abkhazia has a very important place in this new narrative chain and the way in which young people define themselves in oral self-representational narratives helps reveal the dominant expectations of them on the part of adults. Keywords: abkhazia; apsuara; conflict; gal; language; people; question; republic; research; state; today; traditions; war; years; youth
• The Highs and Lows of Ethno-Cultural Diversity: Young People’s Experiences of Chalga Culture in Bulgaria by Apostolov, Apostol (2008) - As the article will suggest, based on a study of chalga music as a form of popular culture in Bulgaria, multiculturalism in contexts outside the global core could perhaps be more adequately interpreted through focusing on cultural pluralism or preservation and enhancement of values and habits of co-existing groups, rather than on the emergence of radically new forms of ethnicity. Drawing directly on young people’s experiences and narratives of chalga music in Bulgaria, this article explores chalga’s roots in ethnic musical forms from Bulgaria and other cultures from the Balkan region. Keywords: balkan; bulgarian; chalga; culture; europe; folk; music; new; people; roma; targovishte; turkish; young; youth
• Youth, Media, and Subculture in Post-Conflict Societies by Perasović, Benjamin (2008) - Thus, changes in the broader political system means that political activism is not so present as it was twenty years ago but remains alive in the form of the skinheads and other football fans who use the opportunity of the stadium to express their support for Croatian generals in Den Haag, or to emphasise nationalistic and ethnocentric, as well as anti-gay and similar values on the terraces. As part of this process they began experimenting with drugs, spray painting graffiti, paying attention to their outward appearance, which included adopting Bomber jacketsxviii By the 1980s, the core elements of football fan groups – those calling themselves hooligans – had developed a number of subcultural characteristics including: a strong sense of masculinity; an inclination towards hierarchy and leaders whilst retaining an emphasis on spontaneity and unpredictability; a preference for alcohol over all other drugs (see Plate 1); competitive practices and ritual confrontation; and the adoption of particular style attributes (see Plate 2), symbols and iconography as well as the use of material objects such as flares and smoke bombs. Keywords: croatian; culture; east; europe; fans; football; groups; media; page; people; punks; scene; skinheads; violence; war; years; young; youth; zagreb
• Tolerance and Prejudice in Belgrade: Young People’s Constructions of Selves and Others by Obradović, Jelena (2008) - Young people, therefore, are additionally frustrated by being subjected to negative representations of themselves because of the actions of others. of Serbs replicate discourses produced by the older generations, and the general consensus in Serbia, but it also leads to growing resentment against ethnic others. There, young Serbs, without exception, viewed the Muslim population as aggressors, as a threat, and as entirely different to Serbs; in effect much the same way as Serb youth in Serbia views the Albanian population. Keywords: albanians; belgrade; europe; extract; group; kosovo; media; muslims; opinions; people; respondents; roma; serbia; serbs; war
• Multi-Ethnic Society in Georgia: A Pre-Condition for Xenophobia or an Arena for Cultural Dialogue? by Elbakidze, Marina (2008) - Only a small number of those who took part in the survey (15%) demonstrated an accurate grasp of the situation, maintaining that other ethnic groups make up no more than 20% of the country’s population as a whole. The Attitude of Georgian Youth towards other Ethnic groups With this broader context in mind, the question of attitudes toward ethnic minorities among young people in Georgia is now addressed drawing on evidence from existing academic studies of what informs young peoples’ concepts of their ‘own’ and ‘other’, of ‘us’ and ‘them’. Keywords: armenians; church; country; focus; georgian; groups; majority; minorities; number; participants; people; research; society; students
• From Banning to Commodity Incorporation: Binding, Bonding, and Banding in Eastern European Music by Smith, Jeffrey Alyn (2004) - Music is never com- pletely passively consumed: State sponsored music is often influential on amateur musicians, people get songs stuck in their heads playing fragments of these tunes over and over in their minds, and people sing in the shower, dance, talk about, and search out music. In this article I will offer a brief history of State music in Eastern Europe in a broad perspective from Socialism to Capitalism or more accurately a consumer culture and political economy showing the role of music in historic changes (Szemere 2001). Keywords: culture; dance; eastern; eastern europe; economy; europe; folk; money; music; musicians; new; people; pop; press; socialism; state; time; university
• Dancing Yourself, Dancing for Others: Performing Identity in a Transylvanian-Romanian Folkdance Ensemble by Mills, Amy C. (2004) - I started to ask myself why young people became involved in folk dance ensembles, particularly after the end of socialism opened the country to diverse interna- tional influences. Nowa- days, some young folks join dance ensembles because they seek an opportunity to emigrate in search of work. Keywords: cluj; dance; dancers; dancing; dejeu; ensemble; europe; folklore; hungarian; music; napoca; people; romanian; transylvania; village
• Signifying Self in Plural Cultural Contexts: Subjectivity, Power and Individual Agency in North-Western Greek Macedonia by Manos, Ioannis (2004) - A political movement, later trans- formed into a political party named Rainbow, [11] and private institutions, whose members belonged to the dis- puted population category of Dopioi claimed to represent the ‘Macedonian people,’ a national minority which dif- fered from other population categories in the region due to its distinctive cultural characteristics. However in my opinion, a large proportion of them, as well as members of other population categories, deal with the issue of identity in ways that escape the frame- works of both national and minority discourses. Keywords: association; categories; category; cultural; culture; dance; dopia; dopioi; events; florina; greek; identity; macedonia; people; region; state; village
• Drink, Drank, Drunk: A Social-Political Grammar of Russian Drinking Practices in a Colonial Context by Koester, David (2003) - Jen Typewritten Text 41 Volume 21, Number 2 Status in the Drinking Ritual – An Ethnographic Example My aim in this paper is to examine the place of status in Russian drinking practices and ideology and then the implications when those status relations are brought into an interethnic relation with the power asymmetry of colonial rule. The term was used on a couple of occasions to explain Russian drinking practices to me. Keywords: drinking; group; obligation; occasion; people; power; russian; status
• Consuming the West but Becoming Thrid World: Food Imports and the Experience of Russianness by Patico, Jennifer (2003) - The logics according to which urbanites differentiate among food products say much about how those actors construct a sense of what it means to be Russian in a globalizing world. Elizaveta was told that the source of the girl's illness was due to an allergy to imported foods. Keywords: domestic; europe; foods; imports; new; people; petersburg; quality; russia; soviet; teachers; world
• Eating Our Way Back to God: Sacral Nutrition and Acculturation in the Krishna Conscious Lifestyle by Farkas, Judit (2003) - Krishna believers want to take over and put into practice not only the religion but also its roots the vaisnava culture, and they never omit to emphasize that Krishna consciousness is not a religion but also a lifestyle.4 This movement reached Hungary in the 1970s, and it has been operating as a registered temple since 1989 under the name of the Community of the Hungarian Believers of Krishna Consciousness. A Krishna village has been established in Hungary where they live relatively isolated but the vast majority of Krishna believers live in big cities or in the temples of these cities or even at their own homes. Keywords: eating; food; god; krishna; krishna believers; krishna consciousness; life; nutrition; offering; people; prabhupada; rules; way; world
• Salamander Brandy: "A Psychedelic Drink" Between Media Myth and Practice of Home Alcohol Distillation in Slovenia by Kozorog, Miha (2003) - Salamander brandy was now known by more and more young people (or those interested in drugs) - some read about it in Mladina, others heard about it here or there, some even tried it. We wanted to try the proper Salamander brandy, made by those who make it traditionally, and as students of anthropology at the same time practice communication with “the Others.” Keywords: brandy; brandy distillation; distillation; hallucinogenic; mladina; ogorevc; people; salamander; salamander brandy; story
• Whaling Products as an Element of Indigenous Diet in Chukotka by Kozlov, Andrew I.; Zdor, Eduard V. (2003) - Kozlov A.I.,2002, Whaling products as an essential element of indigenous diet in Chukotka. The members of the category comprising indigenous people aged 10-30-years mostly stick to the European diet, whereas the Chukchi and Yupik older than 30 years of age prefer the traditional diet (Fomenko, 1990). Keywords: arctic; chukchi; diet; fat; fats; food; hunters; inuit; mammals; marine; meat; northerners; nutrition; people; products; residents; type
• From Cow to Customer: Informal Marketing of Milk in Albania by Nicholson, Beryl (2003) - Milk is also displayed on the raised platform (in other towns bottles of milk are set out along a curb). The highest retail price, 100 lekë, is about the same as the author pays in a British supermarket (but Albanian milk tastes better). Keywords: albania; bottles; customers; lekë; milk; nicholson; people; producers; sell; selling; time; town; women
• From Házi to Hyper Market: Discourses on Time, Money, and Food in Hungary by Smith, Jeff (2003) - With a shift from patron- client connections to money people have to seek work to get money to buy food. The students have little time to spend on reading, writing, research or debate and discussion, but also on shopping, preparing and eating quality foods. Keywords: commodity; food; hungary; házi; life; like; money; new; people; power; quality; shopping; state; time; work
• The Political and Social Life of Food in Socialist Poland by Burrell, Kathy (2003) - It is no surprise, therefore, that the collected accounts illustrate early memories of food shortages and the need to queue for food. As another man recalled: There was always food shortages, I remember there was always propaganda after the war. Keywords: food; life; man; people; poland; queue; queuing; shortages
• Suicide in Post-Socialist Countries: Examples from Hungary and Belarus by Smith, Jeffrey Alyn (2002) - Double binds are used, then, when authority is weak and the person or persons employing double binds as a power relation use them because they are unable to persuade their subject to do what they would not normally do if not forced to do so. It must also be pointed out that double bind relations might exist in any society in any context, however I argue that the weaker one’s authority the more likely they are to place their subjects in double binds. Keywords: authority; bateson; bind; hungarians; hungary; life; mother; people; person; power; state; suicide; text
• Romanian Romani Resistance to Genocide in the Matrix of the 'Ţigan' Other by Woodcock, Shannon (2007) - Henri Stahl’s famous history and sociology of Romanian peasantry and agriculture mentions only once that monasteries “exploited … gypsy [sic] slaves,” while Keith Hitchins lists the varied roles and the “economic burdens” that were expected of “gypsies [sic] …belonging to” monasteries and landowners, but does not discuss the place of these “social outcasts … foreign in customs, mentality and appearance” in relation to other Romanian social groups or beyond these few sentences.4 As with slavery elsewhere, ! After the Treaty of Trianon (1920) institutionalized Romania’s annexation of Transylvania, the prime anxieties of Romanian ethnic identity were focused on Hungarians, Jews and Communist threats, but significant energy continued to be directed into interpellating and marginalizing ! Keywords: archives; bucharest; doc; dosar; gendarmerie; identity; igan; igj; letters; nomadic; people; police; resistance; romanian; slaves; stereotypes; transnistria; ushmm; work
• The Revitalization of Diverging Rituals: The Case of Roma and Gadje in a Transylvanian Village by Fosztó, László (2007) - Village Days A celebration called ‘village days’ (Hun: falunapok) is one form of local revitalisation of traditions involving village fairs, folkdance performances, and competitions, accompanied by feasting, dance, and disco. Orthodox Romanians continued to celebrate the holidays of the patron saints of local churches (Rou: hramul bisericii). Keywords: days; god; group; gypsies; identities; order; people; public; revitalisation; rituals; roma; spirit; traditions; village; volume
• New Russian Sightings and the Question of Social Difference in St. Petersburg by Patico, Jennifer (2000) - That is, by distancing themselves from the behavior and choices they described as characteristically New Russian, they were also, predictably, constructing an idea of their own social value and cultural legitimacy. But rather than looking further for the essence ofor even an aggregate definition of the New Russian as my informants presented it, I focus instead on the fact that precisely who should be called a New Russian was not always clear in their everyday application of the term. Keywords: family; ivan; larisa; new; people; petersburg; russian; school; wealth
• What are they Writing about us Blacks? -- Roma and "Race" in Russia by Lemon, Alaina (2000) - Other Roma, especially those who are not performers, are more cynical about the meaning of being black. Many Roma in Russia, whether they are professional performers or not, have profoundly internalized that dance talent and musicality, the dances themselves, are inherited. Keywords: black; blackness; eyes; gypsies; gypsy; people; race; roma; romani; russian
• Art, Women, and Development in Central Asia: Geography, Nature, and History by Mambetalieva, Orozgan (2000) - One of the problems facing our updated society is the problem of preservation and development of the best traditions of Kyrgyz art. The basic purpose of the League is: propagating creativity of the professional artists and the original culture of Kyrgyzstan at home and abroad, acquainting our creative intelligentsia and the wider public with the advanced achievements of world culture and including Kyrgyz fine art in world art processes. Keywords: art; kyrgyz; kyrgyzstan; manas; people; women
• New Legends in the Rebirth of Khakass Shamanic Culture by Van Deusen, Kira (2000) - Especially damaging to Khakass culture was the rapid rise in the non-native population. But the main thing seems to be the political question of Khakass culture being shown in its ugliest, scariest side. Keywords: culture; khakass; khakassia; people; practice; spirits
• God's Russian Experiment: Hope in the Wake of Deconstruction of Gender and Religious Identity by Creuziger, Clementine (2000) - Oblomovism and the role of fate, while naively viewed as a hindrance to personal and social development, may also be seen as a positive force, for in Russians common fate is embedded the Russian life, the spirit of the culture. While in scholarship Berdyaev is often denounced, among laymen Berdyaev is widely read and seen as a conveyer of Russian identity since the breakup of the Soviet regime. Keywords: avos; berdyaev; identity; people; russian; sense; soviet; suffering
• Anti-Semitism and Victimhood in Waldheim's Vienna by Rotenberg, Robert (2000) - Armed with the capacity to identify the anti-Semitism of such expressions as a result of this study, the Jewish Austrian Student Union is waging a billboard campaign to boycott Austrian Newspapers that employ anti-Semitic language. While living in the city for six months in the latter half of that year, I had the opportunity observe the internal debate on the experience of the war, particularly the experience of Viennese Jews. Keywords: anti; austria; austrians; city; jews; people; play; semitism; vienna; viennese; waldheim; war

• Two Bad Words: FEMEN & Feminism in Independent Ukraine by Zychowicz, Jessica (2011) - This may be why many of the conversations I had about the group returned to the same question that also dominates the critical material on Femen to date: “Is Femen feminist?”As my discussions continued to develop, both with self-identifying feminists and those who reject the term, the idea of labeling Femen as “feminist” became less interesting and less relevant. This clever twist on the letter’s seemingly inviting tone rhetorically foregrounds Femen activists as public representatives, offset by the double exposure of Tymoshenko as the arch-villain of direct democracy. Keywords: body; east; europe; femen; feminist; gender; group; hutsol; media; movement; new; protest; ukraine; ukrainian; women
• “I Don’t Boast About It, but I’m the Most Widely Read Author of This Century”: Howard Fast and International Leftist Literary Culture, ca. Mid-Twentieth Century by Djagalov, Rossen (2009) - This paper represents less of a call for Howard Fast’s literary rehabilitation—he was a writer of popular, politically engaged novels with few pretentions to literary immortality in the first place—than an attempt to reframe the discourse on him and other non-Soviet leftist writers. The effectiveness of Soviet literary excommunications outside of the Second World was a much more uncertain matter and depended on the relative influence of the CP in that particular society and the authority of the Soviet CP over that particular CP. Keywords: american; culture; east; europe; fast; howard; howard fast; international; literature; review; russian; soviet; soviet union; union; ussr; writers
• “A Lot Depends On Us:” Discourses of Individual and Collective Responsibility in Polish Women’s Self-Defense Courses by Drwecki, Abby (2009) - He stated: “We don‟t have training just for women, that is kind of senseless for self defense… but if you don‟t want to exercise with men, you can find a girl to partner with.” Fall 2009 177 the prevention of violence to individual women. Keywords: arts; courses; defense; east; europe; gender; participants; responsibility; self; training; violence; women; women‟s
• The Coca-Cola Kashkaval Network: Βelonging and Business in the Postsocialist Balkans by Agelopoulos, Georgios (2007) - During the summer of 1991 – 1992 I was able to find less than 20 such cases of Rila Krasiotes working in Nea Krasia. This village was later named Nea Krasia (new Krasia). Keywords: bulgaria; business; case; east; europe; greece; greek; identity; krasia; krasiotes; local; nea; nea krasia; population; relationships; rila; trade
• Innocence Lost: Cinematic Representation of 1960s Consumption for 1990s Hungary by Fehérváry, Krisztina (2006) - 9For an elaboration of this analysis of the political logic of state socialist material culture, see Ch. 6 of my dissertation (Fehervary 2005). The flip side of this argument is that people wanted to distance themselves from identification with socialism in part because of the shame of inferior quality (and quantity) of socialist goods (See Fehérváry 2005 Ch.6). Keywords: 1960s; consumer; csinibaba; culture; east; europe; experience; film; goods; nostalgia; past; state; western; youth
• Transylvanian Dancing in the Final Hour by Kraft, Wayne B. (2004) - There are a large number of village dance groups, but since there are relatively few young village musicians, there is grave concern about a loss of continuity in the music forms. [39] The resurgence within the younger generation occurs chiefly in the context of village dance ensembles. Keywords: budapest; culture; dance; dancers; dancing; east; europe; forms; hungarian; hungary; improvisation; martin; movement; music; musicians; number; romania; traditions; transylvania; táncház; village
• Christmas Foodways and Ritual in Northern Germany: Distinctions East and West of the Former Border by Mazur-Stommen, Susan (2003) - In addition, many people in the East remain unfamiliar with New World food items a decade after unification. The long shadow of feudalism, that lay over northeastern Europe on into the twentieth century, and the centralized economies that followed it, were macro-regional factors that stymied the expansion of New World food items into the area far longer than was the case elsewhere in Europe. Keywords: christmas; east; eve; food; germany; west; year
• Book Review: Political Culture in East Central Europe, Fritz Plasser and Andreas Pribersky, Editors, 1996, Brookfield, VT: Avebury by Harper, Krista (2000) - Despite these faults, Political Culture ill East Central Europe suggests many possible points of contact and exchange between cultural anthropologists and political scientists working on political culture. The explosion of interest in matters of political culture in East Central Europe in both disciplines means that political scientists and anthropologists will enter into discussion with one another. Keywords: central; culture; east
• Contents by Editor, AEER (2000) - 3 Robert Rotenberg DePaul University Mette Nordahl Svendsen University of Copenhagen Maj Olsen University of Copenhagen Mari-Ann Herloff-Mortensen University of Copenhagen Camilla Rosengaard University of Copenhagen REVERSED DIASPORA: RUSS[AN JEWRY. for full-time faculty and professionals, $1 O/yrfor students and part-time faculty; European subscribers should write for special rates.), institutional subscriptions to the Review ($20), or additional copies ofthis special Issue ($20) to the managing editor: Robert Rotenberg, International Studies Program, DePaul University, 2320 North Kenmore Ave, Chicago, Illinois, 60614. Keywords: copenhagen; east; university
• Representation of “Lost Orientation,” or, Lesbianism in Georgian Print Media by Kharchilava, Nino; Javakhishvili, Nino (2010) - Georgian homosexual women are doubly marginalized because of their gender (female) and sexual (lesbian) identity. This paper examines how lesbianism is portrayed in Georgian media. Keywords: 28(1; article; claims; east; europe; gender; georgian; homosexuality; lesbians; media; problems; society; women
• Colonization or Liberation: The Paradox of NGOs in Postsocialist States by Hemment, Julie (2000) - In a recent article, anthropologist Terry Turner (n.d.) provides a positive reading of the new networks of NGOs, environmental and rights activists and sectors of the media and public opinion, An emergent transnational community of movements and groups has begun to coalesce as a new, global extension of civil society, in complementary opposition to the longer-established sector of global civil society comprised of private transnational corporations. 43 Colonization or Liberation: The Paradox of NGOs in Postsocialist States Julie Hemment Cornell University The stimulation of civil society has been central to the efforts to democratize post- socialist states and has been regarded as a crucial dimension of transition. Keywords: east; eastern; europe; new; ngos; non; order; society; state; transition; west
• Editors' Notes by Beck, Sam; Kideckel, David A. (2000) - Lajos was active in East European research and contributed a number of interesting articles on pastoralism in the region. First, the East European 2 Anthropology Group will meet Friday Nov. 30 at noon to 1:30 and the Society for the Anthropology of Europe meeting will also be the same day at 5:30-7:00 p.m. Keywords: east; european

• The Worlds of Russian Village Women: Tradition, Transgression, Compromise (Olson and Adonyeva) by MacKinnon, Elaine (2014) - The authors contend that because rural women have not traditionally sung or told stories in public, but rather did so in private spaces, often to exclusively female audiences, they have been ignored or misinterpreted by folklorists. The result of their three-decade long research project, The Worlds of Russian Village Women: Tradition, Transgression, Compromise, opens a valuable window into the lives of three generations of Russian women and the history of their communities set against the backdrop of the twentieth century. Keywords: authors; russian; women
• Women and Capitalism in the Croatian Hinterland. The Practice of Labor and Consumption (Hofman) by Gapova, Elena (2016) - Hofman argues that contrary to socialist practices, “the rhetoric of capitalist consumption is focused on the availability of choices, thereby enabling a consumer model associated with “individual choice” (38). A feeling of nostalgia for the past is a form of dissatisfaction with and a way to criticize neoliberal power structures and economic disparity on the part of certain generational cohorts, who resist them through DIY and local consumption. Keywords: consumption; hofman; women
• New Directions in the Study of Postsocialist Consumption by Berdahl, Daphne (2006) - Ranova’s essay similarly calls attention to personal appearance and new ideals of feminity in her discussion of fashion and style among urban elites in Bulgaria. Focussing on women’s consumption practices, including clothing, media, and make-up, she shows how new categories and definitions of womanhood are inscribed upon the bodies of post-socialist Bulgarian women. Keywords: bodies; consumption; new; socialism; women
• Old Entitlements and New Dependencies: Family versus State in the Czech Republic by Nash, Rebecca (2005) - And, as Milada Bartošová’s (1978) history of social policy makes clear, socialist family policy had income-based criteria in place until 1968. Although family benefits were “universal/ across-the-board” (plošné), children were the primary beneficiaries. Keywords: benefits; care; czechs; era; families; family; home; socialist; state; support; women; work
• “Same People, Same System”: Change and Gender in a Moravian Toy Factory by Passmore, Ben Hill (2005) - It will describe some of the general changes that have impacted women in Czech society. Finally, it will try to answer this question of how and why things could Jen Typewritten Text 114 seem to remain the same, or more accurately, why women in this company would argue that they were the same. Keywords: company; czech; factory; labor; new; republic; system; toys; women; work; workers
• “Only a Dead Fish Flows with the Stream”: NGO Formalization, Anarchofeminism, and the Power of Informal Associations by Kapusta-Pofahl, Karen; Hašková, Hana; Kolářová, Marta (2005) - This paper came about as the result of brainstorming by three researchers engaged in these questions from diverse angles on the relationships between increasing formalization of Czech women’s and feminist NGOs and the activities of lesser- studied informal feminist groups within the context of a lack of wider feminist social movement. For example, one of the leaders in the area of Czech women’s and feminist NGOs has been highly successful in achieving important changes over the last few years. Keywords: activities; anarchist; anarchofeminist; czech; feminist; funding; funds; gender; groups; members; movement; ngos; organizations; project; society; women
• Planned Parenthood behind the Curtain: Population Policy and Sterilization of Romani Women in Communist Czechoslovakia, 1972-1989 by Sokolová, Vera (2005) - Moreover, as Heitlinger, argues, seeking medical care during pregnancy became such a common norm among non-Romani women 10 Tracy Smith, for example, argues that besides Romani II that the non-attendance of Romani women at cultural values and their traditional mistrust toward Gaje prenatal clinics, stemming from their mistrust (non-Romani) medicine, the traumatic experience of the genocidal practices of the Holocaust (when along with of non-Romani services, was viewed as the mentally and physically handicapped the Roma were II synonymous with deviance, indicating an a prime target of Nazi sterilization practices and medical inherent negative predisposition towards the tests), which have survived in and have formed the child (Heitlinger 1987:179; Smith 1997; Romani collective consciousness, is a major factor behind Romani women's apprehension toward hospital II care. The consequences of the procedure are based on oral interviews with Roma women who destroy her lite and marriage. Keywords: care; children; communist; control; czechoslovakia; example; families; family; fertility; gypsy; health; law; policy; population; procedure; question; regime; reproduction; romani; sexuality; society; sterilization; women
• Men and Women Dancing in the Remembered Past of Podhale Poland by Wrazen, Louise (2004) - This could have been the result of the man’s deliberate transgression of socially defined, appropriate dance behavior, or it could have been the result of a misunderstanding between inten- tion (man dancing) and interpretation (other participants). At one time in Podhale men and women entered the physical and conceptual space of the dance deliberately, presenting themselves to public scrutiny, positioning themselves within this community and knowing that they were being evaluated and judged. Keywords: dance; dancing; floor; girl; górale; man; number; opportunity; partner; past; pine; podhale; song; text; women
• The Mysterious Voice! American Women Singing Bulgarian Songs by Webster, Jamie Lynn (2004) - By using a “foreign” voice, communities of American women singers of Bulgarian music have been able to adopt new traditions as an expression of self-identification and cohesively help redefine the ways in which they and other women are viewed by “western” society. “I loved singing music where I didn’t have to go into my head voice because I always had a problem with some of those transitional notes, and I felt less ‘honest’ in my singing when it was in the upper registers…Somehow, certain kinds of songs seem more honest and heartfelt for me when they are sung with power” (Mills 2002). Keywords: american; balkan; bulgarian; chest; folk; head; lausevic; music; register; silverman; singers; singing; songs; sound; style; village; voice; women
• Protecting the Young and Sending of the Dead: Old Belief and the Politics of “Religious Revival” in the Russian Urals by Rogers, Douglas J. (2003) - Not many people attended religious services on a regular basis, but religious baptisms and funerals slowly became standard and, for most, important rituals. They combine the Protestant Ethic thesis with one or another theory of power to explore the inculcation of new religious ethics, subjectivities, or forms of agency in colonized populations, ethics and agencies suited to join and/or domesticate the new sets of political and economic relations in which colonized peoples found themselves. Keywords: belief; church; sepych; townspeople; women; world
• Rethinking Development Templates: Women and Microcredit in Post-Socialist Southeastern Europe by Ghodsee, Kristen (2003) - Even when programs are specifically targeted to women, many women are reluctant to participate even if loan amounts are relatively small. Although there are a variety of different forms microcredit projects can take, in general microcredit banks extend small amounts of capital to groups of poor women. Keywords: countries; development; europe; microcredit; money; needs; programs; projects; women
• Driven Women: Reconceptualizing the Traffic in Women in the Margins of Europe through the Case of Gagauz Mobile Domestics in Istanbul by Keough, Leyla J. (2003) - Maria and her family decided that she take an option increasingly available to Gagauz women: go to Turkey for six months to work as a domestic. In the case of Moldvans, while many women may want to go to Western Europe, where wages are high, the increasingly strict immigration controls in the EU have made it next to impossible to gain entry (see Lutz and Koser 1998 and Koffman et al 2000). Keywords: europe; gagauz; istanbul; maria; moldova; turkey; women; work
• The “Nation-ing” of Gender? Donor Policies, Islam, and Women’s NGOs in Post-War Bosnia-Herzegovina by Helms, Elissa (2003) - The group’s members were also religious women. My point is not to fault religious women, feminists, or other women’s NGO activists in Bosnia for not communicating with each other. Keywords: bosnia; donors; ethnicity; gender; groups; multi; ngos; organizations; society; war; women
• Reflections on Fieldwork with Romani Women: Race, Class, and Feminism in Bosnia-Herzegovina by Erickson, Jennifer (2003) - Forty percent of Romani women had never attended school as compared to only 9% of non-Romani women. Thirty three percent of Romani women said that their partner had abused them over a long period of time as opposed to 24% of non-Romani women. Keywords: bosnia; colleagues; infoteka; medica; project; roma; women
• Taste and Transformation: Ethnographic Encounters with Food in the Czech Republic by Passmore, Ben; Passmore, Susan Racine (2003) - “Did you know that Czech women are versatile?” asked one informant. For Czech women, the capitalist offer of domestic leisure may actually threaten the position within the family enjoyed by their mothers and grandmothers and undermines the value of hearth and home. Keywords: bananas; communist; czech; food; hrabal; pig; time; women
• Ambivalent Traditions: Transforming Gender Symbols and Food Practices in the Czech Republic by Haukanes, Haldis (2003) - What is thought of as traditional Czech food today - dishes such as dumplings served with meat and gravy, or pork with dumplings and sauerkraut – was for many people Sunday food in former times. For instance, when I asked her about her notions of Czech food, a young woman from Plzen answered this: “heavy food, of which there’s a lot” and added; “I never make such food.” Keywords: czech; diet; dumplings; food; meat; traditional; women
• Pincézés: A Drinking-Related Male Social Institution in Rural Hungary by Huseby-Darvas, Éva (2003) - Pincézés, the cluster of social activities conducted by men in wine cellars in some parts of Hungary, is a regular, important, and judging from all indications, an ancient pastime in many areas of the Carpathian Basin. Actually, the rows of wine cellars form an irregular semi-circle on the northern, western and eastern peripheries of the village. Keywords: cellar; cserépfalu; key; life; male; men; pince; pincézés; village; villagers; wine; women
• The Effects of Perceiving “Weak Health” in Russia: The Case of Breastfeeding by Gabriel, Cynthia (2003) - It is very important, according to these doctors, that the breastfeeding mother sleep no less than eight hours a day. Official statistics actually place Russian breastfeeding rates above or equal (0 those of many industrial nations, including those of the United States. Keywords: babies; baby; birth; breastfeeding; doctors; health; medical; milk; mothers; new; roddom; russian; time; women
• Pivo and Pohoda: The Social Conditions and Symbolism of Czech Beer-Drinking by Hall, Timothy M. (2003) - Most Czech beer is lager (ležák), as opposed to ale. Sometimes other beers are available in cans, but Czechs rarely order them and sometimes appear puzzled when foreigners ask for a non-draft beer. Keywords: alcohol; alcoholism; beer; consumption; czech; czech republic; drinking; europe; glasses; half; health; jen; liters; men; number; prague; pubs; republic; table; text; time; volume21; wine; women; world
• The 'Natural Childbirth' Movement in Russia: Self-Representation Strategies by Belooussova, Ekaterina (2002) - In Russian NC discourse, female identity is considered not in political perspective but rather in the context of a New Age paradigm that regards Vol. 20, No.1 2002, Page: 12 sexual intercourse, conception, and childbirth as a complex holistic experience of a woman and a family as a whole. As the interviews I conducted during my work on hospital birth in Russia have revealed, women's rights are roughly violated in State hospitals, at all possible levels. Keywords: birth; charkovsky; childbirth; hospital; midwife; movement; nature; placenta; russian; waterbirth; women
• Childbirth Definitions and Childbirth Experience by Haskova, Hana (2002) - In addition, Czech midwives defme the results of the demanded achievement of their professional autonomy as the achievement of greater flexibility and plurality of childbirth care, the mitigation of the hospital organizational hierarchy pyramid, the transfer of collective responsibility of the team involving doctor and nurse to an individual, and a decrease in fmancial cost of the childbirth care. Attitudes toward Male and Female obstetricians When talking about the stronger participation of women in the implementation of changes in the provision of childbirth care, we mean primarily women among the general public dealing with obstetrics. Keywords: care; changes; childbirth; czech; midwives; mother; obstetrics; society; wards; women
• Re-Theorizing Emancipation: Remembering and Rethinking 'Gender Equality' in Eastern European Womanist Thought by Harvey, Jessica (2002) - Although women throughout Eastern Europe face different problems and different forms of discrimination in the transitional period, many women have a common experience of voicing opposition to gender based discrimination. She also asserted that many women might associate with feminism as a concept, but that women in the group that she had formed, the Independent Women’s Democratic Initiative, would never embrace the word: Keywords: communist; eastern; emancipation; equality; europe; experience; feminism; gender; movement; society; state; womanism; women
• Gender in a Performative Depiction in Tadeusz Rozewicz's Drama 'White Marriage': On the Basis of Judith Butler's Theoretical Text by Dorak, Lilianna (2002) - Assuming, like Butler, that ‘this’ body is constantly being transformed into a male or female body and that it is differentiated only through the appearance of the assumed gender, the starting point for my considerations on the problem of gender identity in Rózewicz’s drama will be the analysis of the way in which cultural gender manifests itself. Starting with Simone de Beauvoir’s famous statement in The Second Sex that ‘nobody is born a woman, we become women!’, a distinction has been made between biological gender and cultural gender or sex identity. Keywords: bianka; characters; cultural; drama; gender; human; polish; role; rózewicz; women
• The Embodied Solution of 'The Woman Question' in Post-Revolutionary Russia by Gradskova, Ioulia (2002) - The problem of body representations and experiences from my view point could put more light not only on the dark problem of the “false equality” of women and men in the Soviet Union, but also on the postsoviet gender problems - seen by many women as exemplified by an unimportance of equal rights, antifeminist attitudes, lack of political activity, declarations of traditionalism, and no desire to be leaders. On the one hand, this period could be characterized by the equality-discourse; it is a period when women were declared equal to men in juridical, social, and political senses. Keywords: culture; differences; life; nature; problem; question; women
• A Western Body for the Russian Woman: Shaping Gender Identity in Modern Women's Magazines by Kalacheva, Olga (2002) - There are many things advertised in the magazines that seem to be used by Western women in order to look perfectly groomed. Further I will suggest some ideas on how magazine ads impact on shaping social identity and why the western magazines have been successful in Russia. Keywords: ads; image; magazines; russian; soviet; women
• Transformations in Embodied Lifecourses: Hungarian Women in the 1990s by West, Barb (2002) - For example, Martha Lampland (1990) has shown in her analysis of a series of essays written by Hungarian women under the banner “Work is My Calling,” that at least some women during the socialist era strongly identified with the idea of themselves as laboring for the good of the community in socially organized work. Through the use of nostalgic discourse these magazines attempted to create a collective memory of domestic, embodied labor that Hungarian women could use to imagine their own bodies and lifecourses. Keywords: article; food; grandma; home; hungarian; hungary; ideal; magazines; memories; new; women
• The Interpretation of Female Bodies as a Projection of Identity: The Orient, The Balkans, or Something Else? by Cupic, Simona (2002) - Microsoft Word - Document2 Volume 20, Number 1 THE INTERPRETATION OF FEMALE BODIES AS A PROJECTION OF IDENTITY: THE ORIENT, THE BALKANS, OR SOMETHING ELSE? Even a hasty look at A Women in the Oriental (c.1884) can clearly confirm that the iconography of the emphasized and exposed female bodies was the sole preoccupation of the artist’s interest, while those bodies that were covered and as such, most characteristic of the Islamic and the post-Islamic world, were entirely ignored. Keywords: art; bodies; female; identity; manner; orient; paintings; time; west; women
• Introduction to the Issue: New Issues in Postsocialist Studies by Caldwell, Melissa L. (2002) - By considering Armenians’ moral categories of appropriate female behavior and responsibility, as well as the practical aspect of labor migration as a survival strategy, Ishkanian argues that Armenian female labor migrants have become the vehicles through which issues of economic globalization and the Armenian experience with postsocialism are articulated. Melissa L. Caldwell All Rights Reserved The copyright for individual articles in both the print and online version of the Anthropology of East Europe Review is retained by the individual authors. Keywords: articles; discourses; papers; postsocialist; women
• Between Tragedy and Reality: Armenian Women's Labor Migration in the Post-Soviet Period by Ishkanian, Armine (2002) - Theoretical Perspectives Economists who examine labor migration often argue that migration is caused by the “push- pull” of economic scarcity and opportunity (W.R. Bohning and M.L. Shloeter-Paredes 1994, Brochmann 1993). In Armenia, where migration is a response to growing post-soviet poverty and hopelessness, permanent or temporary migrations do not “just happen”; there is a process of rationalization that accompanies the “normalization” of labor migration as an acceptable survival strategy/life option as I discuss in the next section. Keywords: armenia; family; globalization; labor; migrants; migration; post; press; soviet; women; work
• The “Civilized Trap” of Modernity and Romanian Roma, 1918-1934 by Williams, Susan (2007) - 77 In an article that served as a rebuttal to the aspirations of Romanian Romani organizations published by the Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society, William John Haley wrote a ten-page examination of the nascent movement. For Romani organizations, this meant that they were watched by the police well into 1936, with sporadic reports on their activities filed in later years. Keywords: arh; balkans; bucure!ti; direc"ia; dos; european; general; group; gypsies; gypsy; hoppé; london; new; organization; page; poli"iei; roma; romanian; society; starkie; women
• Body-Alterations and the Creation of the Other: A Macedonian Case by Thiessen, Ilka (2002) - Nevertheless, the precise motivations that drive young people in contemporary Macedonia to obey specific body images and lead them to a hard regime of body exercise and starvation remains a question. It was this new obsession with altering bodies, often combined with excessive dieting, that drew my attention to the broader political discourses in which it was located. Keywords: bodies; body; friends; macedonia; time; western; women; yugoslavia
• Film Review: Diamonds in the Dark, By Olivia Lucia Carrescia, First Run/Icarus Films, 2000, 60 Minutes by Marrant, Joel (2001) - Carrescia speaks bluntly and accurately of Romania as a patriarchal nation where women have historically played no public role, and traditional social institutions radically restricted their gaining of political power. Carrescia's primary goal was to make a film about Romanian women and the lives they have forged and are forging for thell1Selves under tremendously challenging conditions. Keywords: carrescia; diamonds; film; power; romania; women
• Personhood on a Plate: Gender and Food in the Construction of Proper Hungarian Women by West, Barbara A. (2000) - I argue that the good housewife contest that ran for nearly two years in Kiskegyed, in which contestants had to name the missing ingredient, likewise provides a way for women to do something for themselves, such as show off their skill and perhaps win a prize, at the same time that they are doing what is expected of Hungarian women with regard to cooking for their families (the recipes were usually for fairly standard Hungarian dishes, such as stuffed peppers or chicken stew with paprika). Despite the fact that a focus on women themselves in the articles in Kiskegyed has made that magazine the number one women's magazine in Hungary, most advertisers do not seem to believe that Hungarian women will purchase items purely out of self-interest. Keywords: advertisements; articles; convenience; cooking; food; hungary; kiskegyed; magazines; time; women
• Women, Rape, and War: The Continued Trauma of Refugees and Displaced Persons in Croatia by Olujic, Maria B. (2000) - Many refugee women who never wrote before are now writing poems and short stories. There were other women and children present. Keywords: camps; names; rape; refugee; war; women

• Letters, Plans, and Walls: Architects and Archaeologists in the 1960s Bucharest by Grama, Emanuela (2009) - Those latter images became all the more ubiquitous in architectural journals since the mid 1960s, following the movement on the preservation of historical cities in Western Europe against modernist urban planning. In Romania, the city of Bucharest, as the capital of the country and thereby a would-be pinnacle of socialist urban development, was to play the principal role in this operation. Keywords: architects; architecture; bucharest; central; city; court; europe; history; new; site; socialist; state
• Contested Identity: Encounters with Kazak Diaspora Returning to Kazakstan by Sancak, Meltem (2007) - During the same period other Kazaks fled south towards Iran and Afghanistan. Hospitality and honesty rank very prominently for both groups and are commonly used to differentiate Kazaks from other ethnic groups in the region such as Russians or Uygurs. Keywords: china; groups; kazaks; kazakstan; locals; migrants; oralman; russian; state; village; zhol
• “Talking Nicely”: The Bio-Politics of Social Work in the Ostrava Roma Community by Hegburg, Krista (2005) - Unlike the discourse about 'Czech' corruption, which has been marked by struggles to criminalize practices such as 'tunneling' a finn's financial worth and is perceived as arising from and embedded in bureaucratic structures and the state's participation in the post-socialist privatization process (Altschuler 2001, June this issue), the perception of Roma corruption rests on the widespread assumption Subsumed in all the hullabaloo about whether the Roma Parliament was the proper representative of Czech Roma was their proposal to address the fact that Roma do not seem to register in any other mode but that of social pathology. 1 often observed this uneasiness about the constant crossing of Roma/Czech boundaries that Roma social workers are hired to perform. Keywords: bio; caste; census; culture; czech; government; http://www.lidovky.cz; new; office; parliament; population; power; republic; roma; social; society; state; university; workers
• Measuring Perceptions of “Corruption” in Czech Society by June, Raymond (2005) - How this will affect practices of public opinion surveys to improve governance remains to be seen. Consequently, the state has I 7 Market surveys of governance by new commercial bodies have appropriated many conventional features of I statecraft like the census and public opinion polling. Keywords: corruption; country; cpi; czech; czech republic; governance; government; index; international; knowledge; media; new; opinion; polling; polls; press; professional; public; republic; research; results; state; surveys; tic; transparency
• Processions in the Street: Georgian Orthodox Privilege and Religious Minorities’ Response to Invisibility by Eastwood, William (2009) - But as the legal “landscape” described above indicates, the Georgian Orthodox Church enjoys guarantees for Anthropology of East Europe Review Volume 27, No. 1 Page 25 maintaining a symbolic and material monopoly of Georgian public space. The Georgian Orthodox Church had been invited as well, but evidently had declined to participate. Keywords: baptist; church; georgian; government; minorities; new; orthodox; orthodox church; processions; public; space; state; street
• Politics of Identity Through School Primers: Discursive Construction of Legitimate Image of State, Nation and Society in Soviet and Independent Ukraine by Filippova, Olga (2009) - Inasmuch as in the modern context dominant social groups promote a singular and hegemonic worldview that is most beneficial for his or her own interests, national identity becomes imposed and identity politics takes on a form of enforcement. In this view, it is logical to focus on the active role of the nation-state, since citizens are viewed as little more than “carriers” of national identity, albeit passive ones (Bechhofer et al. 1999:531). Keywords: children; identity; identity politics; illustration; national; politics; primer; school; soviet; state
• Who is Responsible for Our Health? Changing Concepts of State and the Individual in Post-Soviet Ukraine by Bazylevych, Maryna (2009) - For the purposes of this paper, I scrutinize the national policies and trends in health care, as they are understood by the most immediately engaged parties, such as health care administrators and physicians. Currently, only about 4% of the Ukrainian GDP is spent annually on health care (Bezrukov 2003), compared to the 8% recommended by the World Health Organization. Keywords: care; care system; health; health care; medical; new; patients; physicians; reforms; responsibility; state; system; ukraine; ukrainian
• Guest Editors' Note: Bessarabian Borderlands: One Region, Two States, Multiple Ethnicities by Kaneff, Deema; Heintz, Monica (2006) - How can state borders be strengthened in the face of transnational movements and expressions of loyalties that are connected to long and emotionally loaded histories that play to identities of origin? What is required is an exploration of how the construction and dismantling of state borders intersects with the formation and dissolving of conceptual boundaries (Pelkmans, in press; Berdahl 1999). Keywords: bessarabia; borders; boundaries; example; language; moldova; nation; new; region; russian; samkhvalov; soviet; state; ukraine
• Vanishing Nation: Discussing Nation's Reproduction in Post-Socialist Slovenia by Knežević-Hočevar, Duška (2004) - (Trstenjak 1863: 234; author’s translation) The size of the national population has been an unavoidable topic in most “domestic” studies on Slovenian population and related themes ever since. National press on Slovenian fertility The assumption that the public discussion on Slovenian statehood of the 1990s adopted the anachronistic notion of the national population not merely as a historical and cultural phenomenon but as a “natural” fact was tested by reviewing and analysing press- clippings from the Journalist documentation Delo, the most extensive journalist archive in Slovenia. Keywords: decline; delo; fertility; national; policy; population; press; slovenian; state; yugoslavia
• Border and Memory in the village of Koshovice by Vasilaki, Stefania; Vlachaki, Maritina; Koutsourakis, Nicos (2022) - Anthropologist Sarah Green (2018, 67) argues that the concept of borders, as straight lines on the map, is a result of specific political and historical perceptions, which ignore the complex reality that exists in border areas. Photo No. 1 – The stone that defines the borderline between Greece and Albania is located 500 meters from the village.4 Border and the collective memory of the community The concept of the border is a key point of our research, and provides the basis for this article. Keywords: aghia; albania; border; community; greece; greek; koshovice; memory; minority; residents; state; village
• History, Subversion and Low-Intensity Conflict in the Soviet Union by Krikorian, Robert Owen (2003) - But the very act of publishing these articles was sending a powerful message of resistance that did not need commentary for Soviet Armenian readers. This understanding was based on a reading of history formulated by the Soviet State and articulated by Soviet Armenian intellectuals, in which Russia/USSR appeared as the only credible force capable of preventing the destruction of the Armenian people. Keywords: armenia; armenians; erevan; historians; history; liberation; movement; songs; soviet; state
• Capitalism and Socialism as Conflicting Cultural Models in Nicaraguan Politics by Tatar, Bradley (2002) - Ryan, Phil 1995 The Fall and Rise of the Market in Sandinista Nicaragua. This belief is the most important component of Sandinista identity. Keywords: anti; chico; economy; fsln; government; market; nicaragua; press; sandinista; state
• Guest Editors' Introduction: Roma & Gadje by Hegburg, Krista; Ghosh, Yasar Abu (2007) - In the last section of the issue, we return to Romania, with essays from Enik) Magyari- Vincze, László Fosztó, and Johannes Ries, a trio of anthropologists whose ethnographic engagement with Romanian Romani communities reveals the diversity of contemporary Romani lifeworlds in Romania. Thus the first section of the issue addresses modern Romanian Romani history and its place in contemporary Romanian public imaginary. Keywords: daniel; ethnographic; european; gypsies; gypsy; history; holocaust; issue; mann; new; politics; romani; romanian; state; university
• Vision Impaired: The Cultural Politics of Everyday Life in Croatia by Winland, Daphne (2000) - Major discrepancies have existed between state rhetoric concerning guarantees of civic freedoms and minority rights and the actual development and/or enforcement of existing legislation in these areas.3 Ethnonationalism quickly became the dominant rubric through which Croatian identity was configured by the new state (Malesevire and Uzelak, 1997: Hayden, 1992). The essence of Croatianess has thus been constructed as ethnically pure, systematically eliminating references to the complex historical, socio-cultural Vol. 18, No.2 Autumn 2000, Page: 31 Anthropology ofEast Europe Review and political conditions that have, over the years, marked the physical and conceptual terrain of Croatian identity. Keywords: croatian; europe; example; identity; new; politics; serb; state; tudjman; war
• Constructing the "Non-Estonian": The Policy and Politics of Ethnic and European Integration in Estonia by Feldman, Gregory (2000) - Foreign donors, liberal Estonian officials, and non-Estonian leaders view the mere existence of the draft of the State Programme as a hallmark achievement. In brief, I argue that the politics of EU accession enable Estonian officials to appropriate a liberal discourse2 of the self-motivated individual to legitimize ethnic integration policy, a tool for nation building. Keywords: estonian; european; government; integration; language; minister; non; officials; programme; state; state programme
• After Capitalism: Soviet Construction of the State of Nature in Sub-Artic Siberia by Ssorin-Chaikov, Nikolai (2000) - In a few years after Dobrova-Iadrintseva's trip, “to keep the lists of tent holders [chumovladel'tsev], with a detailed accounting of the reindeer herds” became a task not of the social scientist, but of the new local council — “Clan Soviet” (rodovoi soviet),2 and the social categories employed by this registrar — “administrative clan,” “genealogical clan” and, most importantly, “class” — became the terms for Soviet social construction. Soviet social construction is an example of modern power/knowledge regime which driven to its logical and political extreme — to social constructivism. Keywords: boundary; capitalism; class; colonial; construction; modern; nature; new; power; practices; press; society; soviet; state; university; vision
• Soviet Body Politics by Rethmann, Petra (2000) - These representations of Soviet power not only sought to transform what was perceived of as Koryak culture but tried to conform the Koryak life-world to Soviet ideas about social and economic progress. Implicit in such an analysis is a critique of attempts to analyze the establishment and the manifestation of Soviet power as one of subjugation and suppression by means of authority, violence and force. Keywords: body; foucault; koryak; mind; new; power; soviet; state
• Briefing on the Current Conditions for Human Rights in Romania Congressional Human Rights Caucusmania Congessional by Kürti, Laszlo (2000) - The disparate allocation of power and resources between ethnic groups occupying the same territory is perceived to be an advantage to the group in the leading position due to general shortages, the lack of strong leadership and economic deprivation. I should emphasize, however, that stereotypes themselves do not necessarily force ethnic groups into violent confrontation but they may be an important catalyst in separating groups from each other as well as reinforcing aggressive tendencies and conflict. Keywords: conflict; groups; hungarians; rights; romanian; state

• Russia on the Edge: Imagined Geographies and Post-Soviet Identity (Edith W. Clowes) by Mitchell, Rebecca (2011) - The study itself is organized in what Clowes calls a “point-counterpoint” pattern, juxtaposing differing positions on post-Soviet identity. She claims that “in distinction to Soviet identity, which was temporally defined – linked to a vision of the Soviet state at the vanguard of history – the post-Soviet debate about Russian identity has been couched in spatial metaphors of territory and geography” (xi). Keywords: clowes; identity; soviet
• ‘Nothing Has Changed, It Just Turned Illegal’: Discourses for the Justification of Illegal Trade and Immigration in the Moldovan Republic by Heintz, Monica (2007) - In 2003 newspapers were full of scandalised reports concerning young Moldovan women who, after they were caught and imprisoned while working illegally in Italy, declared to Moldovan journalists that they preferred their life in detention to their life in Moldova. It explores the multifaceted reasons and complex arguments used to support legally condemnable activities such as illegal trade and illegal migration. Keywords: europe; labour; migrants; migration; moldova; republic; romanian; russia; soviet; village; work
• Editorial: Two Hungarian Uprisings: 1956 and 2006 by Harper, Krista (2006) - The 1956 Revolution changed political life in countries far removed from Hungary because so many progressives around the world became disillusioned with Soviet-style communism and sought more democratic strategies, leading to the establishment of grassroots social movements and (in Western Europe at least) social democratic parties. Demonstrators and some media accounts drew parallels between the two sets of images (Koranyi and Peto 2006), but anthropology offers the tools to attend to situate meanings, images, and narratives in context—teasing out the differences between tragedy and farce in a region where people often use historical allegories to talk about current political events (Rév 2005). Keywords: hungary; party; revolution; soviet
• Ideology of Consumption in Soviet Union: From Asceticism to the Legitimating of Consumer Goods by Gurova, Olga (2006) - It was mentioned that Soviet fashion should be simple, convenient, easily made, cheap, available to working class women, and it was emphasized that clothes should meet the requirements of a primarily functional device (Ob odezhdah 1924:30-31). The functional attitude towards fashion and clothes was reflected in the experiments of Soviet fashion designers Aleksandra Ekster, Lubov’ Popova, and Varvara Stepanova. Keywords: beauty; clothes; consumer; consumption; discourse; fashion; goods; ideology; life; soviet; taste
• Shock Therapy. Psychology, Precarity, and Well-Being in Postsocialist Russia by Tomas Matza. Durham: Duke University Press. 2018. 305pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $99.95, Cloth. $26.95, Paperback. by Hervouet-Zeiber, Grégoire (2019) - Its most important insights are that: 1) psychotherapy in post-Soviet Russia reproduces class and gender differences; 2) the biopolitics and the “precarious care” the author describes are engaged in negotiations of (in)commensurability; 3) psychotherapeutic work is political in ways the author elucidates ethnographically. Thanks to the clarity of its style and its ability to be rigorous without being obscure and because, through psychotherapy, the book gives an account of how 113 Anthropology of East Europe Review 36 (1), 2019 people have been ethically and politically engaged in the post-Soviet world, I would also recommend this book to all who are interested in post-Soviet Russia. Keywords: matza; soviet; work
• Economic and Trade Borders: The Case of the Reni District, Ukranian Bessarabia by Samokhvalov, Vsevolod; Samokhvalov, Oleg (2006) - Another factor that contributed to the eroding of ethnic and purely local (Bessarabian) identities amongst Reni district residents was the integration of the local population into the Soviet societal complex. 28 Interview with the engineer of Reni railway station V.F.Lobayev. Keywords: bessarabia; border; danube; district; odessa; population; port; region; reni; reni district; romania; russian; soviet; trade; ukraine; ukrainian
• Continuity and Identity in the Local Community: A Long Term Perspective by Boneva, Tanya (2006) - To the present day, Bulgarian family names remain an official marker of ethnic identity. He stressed the mixture of family names: some Greeks used Bulgarian names and some Bulgarians, Greek families’ names (Derzavin 1914:101). Keywords: bulgarian; communities; education; identity; korten; life; names; novakov; russian; schools; social; soviet; time; tvarditsa; villages
• Religion in Secular Archives: Soviet Atheism and Historical Knowledge. By Sonja Luehrmann. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. xii, 229 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $87.00, hard bound. Paper. by Lassin, Jacob (2020) - Indeed, within Soviet archives, oral histories played an important role in the creation of knowledge concerning religion and also provided justification for the continued need of atheist activism. In this book, Sonja Luehrmann offers some welcome new approaches to the challenges that arise from studying religion and religious practice in archives that were designed and maintained by government bureaucracies that were hostile to religious practice and belief. Keywords: archive; luehrmann; soviet
• Zychowicz, Jessica. Superfluous Women: Art, Feminism, and Revolution in Twenty-First-Century Ukraine. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2020. Illustrations. 424 pp. $85.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4875-0168-6. by Dvareckas, Stephanie R. (2022) - A dominant discourse throughout Superfluous Women is post-Soviet nostalgia, in which the Soviet past is at times depicted as distinct from the present and, at others, portrayed as being one and the same. Focusing on the young generation of post-Soviet art-activists “who actively resisted the unravelling of the reforms promised during the Orange Revolution by protesting where they believed the state viewed their particular interests to be dispensable” (5), scholar Jessica Zychowicz’s Superfluous Women: Art, Feminism, and Revolution in Twenty-First Century Ukraine considers the politics of the body during and after Ukraine’s protest movements. Keywords: author; soviet; ukraine; zychowicz
• A Trinity of Siberian Easter-Season Meals by Hudgins, Sharon (2003) - (Other Ukrainian paski look almost identical to the slimmer Russian Easter bread kulich, which is a traditional accompaniment to the creamy paskha cheesecake in Russia. Jen Typewritten Text 24 Volume 21, Number 1 7 There are many versions of Russian paskha, both cooked and uncooked. Keywords: culinary; day; dishes; easter; eggs; foods; irkutsk; kulich; maslenitsa; meal; new; number; orthodox; paskha; russian; siberia; soviet; table; white
• Living in Truth: Physics as a Way of Life by Nyíri, Pál; Breidenbach, Joana (2002) - With the exception of that period, Soviet physicists did have access to the main periodicals such as Physics Review, but even the short delay with which they arrived could be frustrating. Soviet physicists were gradually allowed to go abroad again. Keywords: gorelik; gribov; institute; landau; leningrad; moscow; physicists; physics; school; science; scientists; soviet; stalin; time; union; work
• The Socialist Sixties: Crossing Borders in the Second World (Gorsuch and Koenker Ed.) by Hiatt, Kathleen (2013) - The work “seeks to use the Second World, socialist societies of the 1960s…as the springboard from which to explore global interconnections and…patterns of cultural cross- pollination” (2013:2). Clearly in dialogue with recent scholarship on consumption and everyday life in socialist societies, this last section looks at topics such as Thaw-era film (Lilya Kaganovsky, 2013), Yugoslav television (Sabina Mihelj, 2013), Soviet soccer hooliganism (Robert Edelman, 2013), Cuban youth consumption of foreign music (Anne Luke, 2013), and rise of the Soviet television miniseries (Stephen Lovell, 2013). Keywords: sixties; socialist; soviet; world
• The Life of Baldan Chimitovich Gomboev: Using Personal Narratives to Approach Buriat Post-Soviet Music by Newyear, Tristra (2002) - Gomboev’s words and instruments are interesting for those studying the history of Buriat music, but they also have wider implications for researchers investigating social phenomena in post-Soviet Russia. Buriat culture in the post-Soviet era is a hybrid of Russian, Soviet, and Buriat elements that have been assembled by different people in strikingly different ways. Keywords: approach; buriat; culture; gomboev; instruments; life; russian; soviet

• Book Review: Being Góral: Identity Politics and Globalization in Postsocialist Poland, Deborah Cahalen Schneider by Vermeersch, Peter (2006) - Thus, besides being an intriguing thematically organized history of the town of Żywiec, this elegant book is a useful contribution to the wider literature on identity politics in Central Europe, not only because it offers a view Anthropology of East Europe Review Volume 24, No. 2 Page 104 into a relatively unknown case, but also because it shows that group identity is not simply a matter of “being,” that it is not simply the result of the prior existence of ethnic differentiation, but the result of the actions of contemporary economic elites deliberately promoting ethnic identity as a dominant political idiom. By examining not only the postcommunist period, but also the period of the Austro-Hungarian partitions, the interwar Polish state, the Nazi occupation and the communist period, Schneider finds that such processes of identity politics as a response to outside forces also occurred before 1989. Keywords: góral; identity; schneider
• Pornography, Primitives, and Postsocialist Slovakia by Quin, James (2005) - By eliding difficulties and showing ordinary locations peopled by ordinary young men, Pet'ko is creating an especially exotic image of Slovakia and of Slovak men, the kind of exotic image which is typical fare in the gay porn market. Pet'ko uses images of young Slovak men that give the appearance of romantic peasants of the Sturite type, even locating them in the same kind of rural environment praised by the Sturovci. Keywords: body; czech; gay; identity; image; man; material; men; models; peasant; pet'ko; queer; queering; slovak; slovakia; time; video; way; ways
• Bessarabian Bulgarians: Studying in Bulgaria, Searching for an Identity by Ganchev, Alexander (2006) - This can be viewed as a point of reference, the starting point for a transformational process where the identity of young Bessarabian Bulgarians will be exposed to change over the years of studying. Bessarabian Bulgarians, who did not have the legal right to communicate with Bulgaria for approximately one century, or access to Bulgarian literature or other media, now have access to the country and its literature. Keywords: bessarabia; bulgarians; century; group; identity; language; russian; students
• Step Across the Border: Transnational Encounters and Nation-Making by Demirdirek, Hülya (2006) - Being Gagauz through connectedness to and separation from a Turkish identity is just one dimension of Gagauz identity. By looking specifically at Gagauz-Turkish encounters, I illustrate the symbolic and instrumental significance of borders and the way in which they shape the definition of Gagauz national identity (cf. Keywords: event; gagauz; identity; language; moldovan; national; russian; turkey; turkic; turkish; turks
• Conference: Oral History and (Post)Socialist Societies by Gallimat, Anselma (2006) - Julia Gradskova discussed how women’s stories about beauty during maternity could help us understand Soviet social history with regard to the 1930-1960s. Stephan began by considering the value of Oral History research for history, arguing that it facilitated insights into topics such as social life and the everyday. Keywords: history; identity; life; paper; question; stories
• European Borderlands, Beyond Britain and Brexit by Wilson, Thomas M. (2022) - While all of the peoples of the British Isles will be affected by Brexit, directly or indirectly, in the short and long-term, Brexit effects are already apparent in the borderlands, i.e., the land border that simultaneously divides and conjoins the ROI and Northern Ireland, a constituent part of the UK. Microsoft Word - 3TW3Wilson - FINALforAEEReditors.docx Anthropology of East Europe Review Special Issue - 38 (1), 2021 / DOI: 10.14434/aeer.v37i1.33576 European Borderlands, Beyond Britain and Brexit Thomas M. Wilson Binghamton University; State University of New York Abstract Brexit, i.e., the United Kingdom’s departure from membership in the European Union, has posed particular problems for communities in the borderlands of Northern Ireland since the referendum which began the process. Keywords: borderlands; brexit; british; european; identity; integration; ireland; northern; northern ireland; wilson
• Editors' Notes: Food and Foodways in Postsocialist Eurasia by Harper, Krista; West, Barbara (2003) - Part Two, “Food, Meaning, and Identity,” points to the symbolic aspects of food and examines how food consumption shapes identity and vice versa. Drawing from research in the Czech Republic, Haukanes studies how certain foods and food practices serve as symbols of masculinity and femininity. Keywords: articles; food; identity; issue; papers; west
• Beer Bottles an Bar Signs: Brewing Identity in Postsocialist Poland by Asher, Andrew D. (2003) - The dynamics of a distributed product make anecdotes such as this powerful evidence to brewery employees and Kostrova residents of the status and prestige of Browar Kostrova as a national brewery. At this time, many breweries, including Browar Koslrova, were leased to their employees as workers' companies. Keywords: beer; brewery; browar; community; company; economy; history; identity; individual; kostrova; new; poland; socialism; workers
• Reconstructing Jewish Identity in Croatia: Towards a Refined Symbolic Ethnicity by Hofman, Nila Ginger (2001) - , Another important social aspect of Jewish Croatian social identity is cosmopolitanism. Both Croatian cultural diversity campaigns and international Jewish support organizations consider Jewish identity to have an essentially religious core. Keywords: autumn; community; croatian; ethnicity; gans; identities; identity; jews; model; national; negotiation; no.2; page; vol

• Stalinslav Broucek and Richard Jerabek, Eds., Lidova Kultura: Narodopisna Encyklopedie Cech, Moravy a Slezska by Salzmann, Zdenek (2008) - To make this volume very comprehensive, the editors have also included Czech ethnographers (anthropologists) who have been living abroad for most of their professional lives, and those foreign scholars who at one time made the territory of today’s Czech Republic their home or place of extended visits and published in the field, for example, Roman Jakobson (1896-1982) and Hacquet de la Motte Balthasar (1739?-1815). This volume also includes a number of Czech and Moravian poets, writers, painters, and composers—for example, František Halas (1901-1949), who in his essays expressed his love for folk poetry; Jan Anthropology of East Europe Review Volume 26, No. 1 Page 115 Neruda (1834-1891), the author of a brief but valuable study of Czech folk dances; Josef Mánes (1820-1871), who included in his extensive artistic legacy drawings of folk costumes and folk architecture; and the well- known composer Leoš Janáček (1854-1928), who not only was inspired in his compositions by folk songs but also wrote about them and actively engaged in collecting them. Keywords: culture; czech; folk; volume
• Turbo Folk and Dance Music in 1990s Serbia: Media, Ideology and the Production of Spectacle by Kronja, Ivana (2004) - Structure of Sensibility The messages of turbo folk style are best described by a specific structure of sensibility that was formed during the domination of turbo-folk in the ’90s. ‘Turbo-folk’ is a neologism created from two words: the word ‘turbo,’ which originally comes from the world of automobiles, where it signifies the type of cars whose motors’ power had been improved by a special turbine, turbo, turbo-diesel and turbo diesel injection cars, and the word ‘folk,’ which stands for the popular, people’s or folk music. Keywords: criminal; culture; dance; dance music; folk; folk music; life; mass; media; milošević; music; pink; regime; serbian; style; turbo; turbo folk; values; war; warrior
• The Challenges of Socialization in Business Education: The Case of the School of Management, St. Petersburg State University by Pshenichnikova, Irina (2003) - When incorporated into the curriculum and textbooks as well as into managerial communicative habits in accordance with the norms and standards of Russian language, it will fulfill the social, economic and linguistic demands of the new generation of managers in market economy Russia. The analyzed data proves that while socializing through language students of the School of Management tend to attain a global business culture. Keywords: business; communication; culture; english; language; management; petersburg; process; russian; school; socialization; students; university; word
• Food, Gender, and Representation by Jankauskait, Margarita (2003) - Recollecting traditions of Rococo, women artists create witty porcelain sets– delicacies (Dalia Laučkaitė–Jakimavičienė’s A Sweet Set, 1983, Živilė Barzdukaitė’s A Set with Bananas, 1994) and crochet yarn ‘broth’ (Virginija Gvazdaitytė–Degenienė’s Broth, 2000) to re-create rituals of the table. By employing the aesthetic, plastic, or sensory (odor) features of food and integrating meanings that culture attaches to food products, women artists disclaim the hegemony of sight–logos and ‘the pure art’ and open ways for alternative talking. Keywords: artist; body; culture; femininity; food; means; woman
• The Impact of Traditional and Modern Social Institutions on the Formation of National Self-Awareness of the Evenk One of the Native Peoples of the North by Govorina, Elena (2000) - In this way the gradual destruction of traditional social institutions and the content of their socialization practices meant undermining the mechanisms of the transmission of norms, values, worldview and mode of life of native peoples, e.g. of everything that contributes into the formation of national self-awareness, providing a “symbolic universe” for meaningful life. However, it seems that on the level of social organization the causes of that are the destruction of traditional social institutions, which secured the perpetuation of the Evenk before modernization. Keywords: awareness; community; culture; evenk; institutions; knowledge; language; peoples; self

• Social Pluralism in the Postsocialist City: Diverging Consumer Groups in the Consumption Landscape of Stara Zagora, Bulgaria by Garstka, Grant Jude (2009) - However, this term also reflects the pluralism of urban consumption spaces in a postmodern city that have different meanings and operate in different ways for one’s various daily consumption habits and needs. Overall, the coming together of public and private consumption in a fluid relationship helps to conceptually understand how researchers can approach urban consumption (Clarke and Bradford 1998) because the analysis of consumption uncovers active human processes in urban environments (Jayne 2006a; Miller 1995). Keywords: center; central; city; consumption; europe; new; page; postsocialist; retail; shopping; time
• The Romanian Side(s) of Postmodernism by Mihalache, Stefania (2004) - The toughest question that was asked was whether Romanian postmodernism is possible or not; could it be authentic? Ihab Hassan declared that he was not that I much interested in postmodernism any longer; I Malcom Bradbury said it is just a name for certain aesthetic happenings and that other aesthetic changes are about to come. Keywords: end; federman; lefter; literature; postmodernism; real; seminar; time; western
• The Challenges of Applied Ethnology in Croatia by Zebec, Tvrtko (2004) - Even today, there is a tendency to follow the model of folklore festival expert committees. aeer.indb The Anthropology of East Europe Review Volume 22 • Number 1 • Spring 2004 85 The Challenges of Applied Ethnology in Croatia Tvrtko zebec institute of ethnology and folklore research, zagreb, croatia The tradition of folklore festivals in Croatia has roots in the festivals of peasant culture from the end of the 1920s and the second part of the 1930s, when the cultural, edu- cational and charitable association Peasant Harmony with its populist ideology attempted to inspire self-confidence in peasants, gradually enlighten them, and introduce them to the national political life. Keywords: authenticity; contemporary; croatia; dance; experts; festival; folklore; group; individual; music; performance; time; zagreb
• Dachas and Vegetable Gardens in Belarus Economic and Subjective Stakes of an "Ordinary Passion" by Hervouet, Ronan (2003) - Then, through conversations and meals with Belarusian friends, I became more and more aware of the importance of self-sufficiency: a large part of the foodstuffs eaten comes from dacha. The question of dachas and vegetable gardens appears at the crossroads of these two interrogations as a favored subject of research. Keywords: belarus; dacha; factory; family; garden; gardening; maria; paris; piotr; question; social; time; work; years; yuri

• Social Continuity in a Western-Hungarian Village by Kemény, Márton (2011) - The relationship between local norms and the ideology of macro-economic polit ics and policies is sometimes in opposition in post- socialist countries and, therefore, emerges as a quite relevant research topic for economic anthropologists (cf. The collapse ofthe socialist state and cooperative paternalism (guarantee forjob, pension, health service, agricultural acquisit ion, and sell ing etc.), a 'great transformation' ( Polanyi | 9 44) to use Polany i' s term. draws attention to transformations that take place in local norms. Keywords: economy; families; family; lage; ofthe; relations; socialism; village; wine
• Bohuslav Salanda, Ceska Venice Siroky Dul by Salzmann, Zdenek (2009) - Village studies and comprehensive works have been relatively few and far between, but in recent years the situation has begun to change. Ceska vesnice Siroky Dul Keywords: dul; village
• Traditional Dance in Greece by Hunt, Yvonne (2004) - Rhythms for Greek dance music are quite varied as in other countries of the Balkan Peninsula. Improvisation is one of the most characteristic features of Greek dances. Keywords: ancient; dance; dancing; greece; greeks; lead; music; village
• Film Review: “Returning Home: Revival of a Bosnian Village” Tone Bringa (Producer, Anthropologist) with Peter Loizos (Consultant) by Helms, Elissa (2003) - In three visits from 1999-2001, “Returning Home” chronicles the process of return through the experiences of Muslim returnees and some of the Croats displaced by Muslim forces who have taken temporary refuge in the Muslims’ houses. Finally, as a film production “ Returning Home” unfortunately does not reflect the quality of professional filmmaking apparent in “We Are All Neighbors.” Keywords: croat; film; village
• Value Village in my Village: Western Ukrainians and Overseas Kin by Shostak, Natalia (2000) - With the demise of the Soviet system, if the center/periphery model holds, the new center of Kiev should take over Moscow's role for village communities in Ukraine. In failing to invent proper transitional mechanisms the Center has been steadily losing its appeal to local people. Keywords: canada; center; hrytsavolia; kin; local; ukrainian; village; world

• An Ethics of Hope: Working on the Self in Contemporary Moscow by Zigon, Jarrett (2006) - , William E. Connolly argues that language when creatively used to work-through ethical moments has the potential to alter the socio-historic- cultural world “in a small or large way,” and in so doing, “marks both creativity in thinking and the politics of becoming” (2002:71). As such they not only help individuals in particular moments of moral indecision but also provide a creative moment for working on the self. Keywords: act; god; kind; life; moment; person; prayer; self; suffering; way

• Anti-Semitism in Postcommunist Central and Eastern Europe by Starman, Hannah (2004) - The volatile mix of anti-Jewish and anti-Israeli hostility transmitted through new means of communication such as the Internet8 has become known in the wider media as the ‘new anti-Semitism’ and has gained enough currency to claim several monographs9 and numerous articles to its name.10 Anti-Jewish incidents perpetrated in Western European countries such as Belgium, France, the Netherlands, Germany, and Great Britain have attracted considerable attention and raised great concerns, both because of the unprecedented violence of the attacks, and the shift of public perception of their perpetrators from neo-Nazi skinheads to young Muslim immigrants. It is important to note that those who promote anti-Jewish discourse would not recognize their pronouncements as anti-Semitic, which has led to what Volovici called a “paradoxical situation” (1994: 4) of “antisemitism without Jews and without antisemites” (Cornea 1993). Keywords: anti; antisemitism; central; communist; eastern; europe; european; holocaust; israel; jerusalem; jews; new; semitism; shafir; slovenia; university
• Green Carnivores, Mad Cows, and Gene Tech: The Politics of Food in Hungarian Environmentalism by Harper, Krista (2003) - The case of BSE illuminates differences in cultural perceptions of food safety and risk, as well as the political stakes of framing food as an environmental issue. Naturalizing the Market through Unnatural Foods: Environmentalist Responses In the preceding sections, I examined differences between Hungarian, American, and Western European attitudes toward vegetarianism, the “mad cow” scare, and GMO crops and food products. Keywords: british; bse; cow; disease; environmentalists; european; food; issue; public; united
• Cinderellas of Europe: Waste, Food, and Cleanliness in Postsocialist Politics by Gille, Zsuzsa (2002) - The donkey pulls a trashcan from which piles of Coca-Cola cans and bottles have spilled; the caption reads: “We’re heading to Europe. Restricting the outcomes of the postsocialist transition to a closure towards Europe or an openness to it straitjackets reality. Keywords: environmental; europe; european; food; garé; hungarian; hungary; incinerator; politics; waste; western
• Brain Drain, Bogus Asylum Seekers, and Babies: Conflicting Discourses of Mobility and Fertility in Bulgaria and the European Union by Ghodsee, Kristen (2002) - More importantly, many European countries are aging at unprecedented rates. Public debates about the brain drain in Bulgaria and the need for replacement migration in Western Europe obscure the underlying issue of fertility rates and the demographic decline that characterizes European countries in both East and West. Keywords: brain; bulgaria; countries; country; european; fertility; migration; number; population; states; united; western
• Where the Bison still Roam: Wildlife Preservation and Animal Welfare Issues in Poland and Beyond by Wilson, Tracie L. (2000) - Poland: A Battleground for Western Interests Aside from conflict between parties within Poland, the status of Polish animals has also received attention from Westerners on both sides of the issue. For example, many animal rights activists in the US choose not to wear coats that even resemble fur, especially if the fake is such that it could be mistaken for the real thing, as this might suggest that one supports the wearing of fur. Keywords: animal; european; fur; organizations; poland; polish; rights; welfare; western; wolves
• Editor's Notes by Rotenberg, Robert (2000) - Sanja Kalapos gives us an account of contemporary youth issues in Zagreb. This issue is full of remarkable papers. Keywords: european; papers

• Cuisine and Cultural Identity in Balkans by Bradatan, Cristina (2003) - The conclusions will point to the fact that, if “Balkan cuisine” means what people eat in this region on a daily basis, then there is a very limited specificity and coherence of food consumption in Balkan countries. There are no significant changes between 1980-1989 and 1990-2000 in terms of average diet composition of Balkan countries relative to other European countries, although the political and social situation changed dramatically between these two decades. Keywords: animal; balkan; consumption; countries; cuisine; food
• Estonian Food Production by Thorne, Stuart (2003) - A survey in 1998 of the shopping habits of 800 consumers in rural Estonia revealed that appreciable numbers of respondents did not buy many products because they produced their own. Rural manufacturers will have to find new products and new markets; the rural tourist industry, which is beginning to thrive, will be a major market for rural food products. Keywords: estonia; food; number; office; population; production; products; tallinn

• Manele in Romania: Cultural Expression and Social Meaning in Balkan Popular Music. Eds. Margaret Beissinger, Speranţa Rădulescu, and Anca Giurchescu. Vol. 21, Europea: Ethnomusicologies and Modernities, eds. Philip V. Bohlman and Martin Stokes. Lanham, Ma by Buchanan, Donna A. (2019) - The initial chapter, by Giurchescu and Rădulescu, surveys typical manele performance contexts (life-cycle celebrations, restaurants, clubs, concerts, competitions), rhythmic and melodic structures, lyrical content, gender considerations, and choreographic models, drawing useful comparisons between manele and other regional and Romanian dance styles. These nouveaux riches include politicians, businessmen, and mafiosos who became the patrons of manele performances and the acclaimed subjects of their song lyrics in the 1990s and early 2000s. Keywords: chapter; genre; manele; music; rădulescu

• Editors' Preview and Call for Papers by Harper, Krista; Hemment, Julie (2006) - Alexander Tymczuk examines the continued significance of personal networks in post-Soviet Ukraine. These narratives reveal a pronounced perception of anti-Serbian bias on the part of the international community and a sense of betrayal and loss. Keywords: roma; work
• Editor's Notes by West, Barbara A. (2002) - I attended that seminar and, along with several authors in this issue, presented work that focused on East and Central European bodies during some historical period. In addition to this local ethnography, I have also included work from some of anthropology’s cognate disciplines in Poland, Serbia, the Czech Republic, and Russia. Keywords: issue; work

• What is a nationalist? Some Thoughts on the Question from Bosnia-Herzegovina by Kurtović, Larisa (2011) - Although incentives to join political parties seemed strong, some of my younger informants held strong convictions against such decisions, opting to instead work in the non- governmental sector or at least join one of the non-nationalist parties, like the Social Democrats 15 . Through such stories and encounters, I began to question the tacit link between the continued electoral successes of nationalist parties and questions of political convictions among the town’s residents. Keywords: bosnia; croat; forms; jajce; nationalist; new; parties; party; politics; town; war; zlata
• Xavier Bougarel, Elissa Helms and Ger Duijzings, Eds., The New Bosnian Mosaic: Identities, Memories and Moral Claims in a Post-War Society by Locke, Peter (2009) - More importantly, they make the case for the necessity and timeliness of a “bottom-up” approach to contemporary Bosnia- Herzegovina, highlighting the ways that a literature dominated by “legal scholars and political scientists” has produced an “overemphasis on institutional and electoral issues,” as well as a reductive framing of the messy realities of post-war society in terms of ethnic dimensions and the “legal categories set forth in the [Dayton] peace agreement” (13). The final section takes up the consequences of “top-down” approaches to post-war recovery and state building through a set of trenchant critiques. Keywords: bosnia; post; volume; war
• Macedonia: A Country in Quotation Marks by Schwartz, Jonathan (2000) - The civil war in other multi-ethnic regions of former Yugoslavia makes urgent ethnographic reporting from regions that remain peaceful. Nevertheless, in her own observations of Prespa Lake villages, Durham noted: In the villages that were half Mohammedan, there had, as a rule, been no fighting, and therefore little looting, and these were crowded with refugees. Keywords: albanian; communities; durham; greek; lake; macedonia; prespa; region; resen; turkish; villages; war; yugoslavia

• Book Review- Playing Soldiers in Bohemia: An Ethnography of NATO Membership by Burland, Daniel (2006) - It draws upon Červinková’s fieldwork carried out from February, 2001 to June, 2002 on Czech military bases and at other sites in the Czech Republic. Červinková organizes Chapter Two around an anomaly: the Czech military had no distinguished record to defend; yet the officer corps did not welcome military reform. Keywords: czech; military; červinková
• Departures from Home: Czech Perspectives on Difference by Altshuler, David (2003) - In the second half of the 1990s, when I was living in the Czech Republic and conducting ethnographic research in Olomouc and Prague, property ownership and economic affluence more generally were widely recognized as morally charged indexes of difference. Rather, the aim of this paper has been to bring together, at least in a tentative way, historical and contemporary references to property ownership and wealth that have been depicted in terms of being “inside” and “outside” the nation through references to emigration, exile, and foreignness, which, taken together, represent something of a lateral perspective on socioeconomic difference. Keywords: citizens; communist; corruption; czech; difference; eva; german; national; ownership; property

• Preliminary Reflections on the Challenges of Rethinking Post Colonial and Post-Socialist Realities by Wildcat, Daniel R. (2004) - PRELIMINARY REFLECTIONS ON THE CHALLENGES OF RETHINKING POST- COLONIAL AND POST-SOCIALIST REALITIES Daniel R. Wildcat Haskell Indian Nations University, Lawrence © 2004 Daniel R. Wildcat All Rights Reserved The copyright for individual articles in both the print and online version of the Anthropology of East Europe Review are retained by the individual authors. Comanche leader and activist Ladonna Harris states her Comanche tribal tradition possesses four R’s of education: Relations, Respect, Reciprocities, and Responsibility.1 Because many indigenous traditions seem to put great emphasis on attentiveness and awareness of the many relations/relationships 1 Living in an intertribal setting at Haskell Indian Nations University, I am amazed at how often I have heard tribal elders express very similar views and, more importantly, conduct themselves in a manner consistent with what Harris calls the four “‘R’s”. Keywords: american; colonial; deloria; history; reality; truth; world

• Public Duties and Private Obligations: Networking and Personalisation of Relations in Ukraine by Tymczuk, Alexander (2006) - One way of evading such irritations is by seeking some personal link to public services. Public services, such as medical examinations or fixing the central heating, are, according to democratic principles, mainly distributed by queuing. Keywords: case; cognac; engineer; friends; head; informants; public; relations; roman; service; svoi
• Queering Civil Society in Postsocialist Slovakia by Wallace-Lorencová, Viera (2003) - I offer this vignette from the summer of 2000 to capture the atmosphere that characterized the early phases of my fieldwork, and to exemplify the culturally situated forms of political interaction initiated by Slovak lesbian and gay rights activists. Based on data obtained via ethnographic research among Slovak lesbian and gay activists from the nongovernmental organizations Ganymedes, Museion, Altera, HaBio, CKKISM, Podisea, and the political initiative Iniciatíva Inakosť, my larger project is to articulate the political significance of emerging visibility of sexual difference. Keywords: activists; bratislava; discrimination; gay; government; lesbian; minorities; new; orientation; parliament; public; rights; slovakia

• Teaching East European Anthropology by Verdery, Katherine (2000) - MS. • Sampson, Steven 1981 • Sampson, Steven L. National integration through socialist planning: an anthropological study of a Romanian new town. Keywords: course; europe; press; socialism; thesis; xerox

• Nationalist Tensions: Tradition and Modernity in Discussions of Kyrgyz Bride-Capture by Wilensky-Lanford, Ethan (2003) - In fact, women members of the groom’s family are said to be the most convincing proponents of most unions. Women have more agency in Kyrgyz marriage patterning than may at first appear. Keywords: alakachuu; bride; family; kyrgyz

• Various News Items and Reports by Lockwood, William G.; Khozyaistvo, Planovoye; Bennett, Linda; Verdery, Katherine (2000) - The Association publishes a journal, Social Science History, and a series of books, New Approaches to Social Science History, co-edited by Stanley Engerman and John Model. Annual dues are $20.00 ($12.00 for graduate students) and include a subscription to Social Science History. Keywords: bulgaria; history; science; social; university

• Introduction to Special Issue: Ethnographies of Postsocialism by Hemment, Julie (2003) - A striking number of papers this year looked at the architecture of transnational engagement in postsocialist states, that is, the local reception of international aid and policy interventions and the discourses accompanying them. In their different ways, Diana Blank and Irina Pshenichnikova both examine the topic of transforming postsocialist power relations by looking at language. Keywords: amherst; college; papers; postsocialism; power; soyuz; studies
• Mapping the Kingdom of Plastic Bags: The Topography of Fairytale Cynicism in Chelnochovsk-Na-Dniestre, Ukraine by Blank, Diana R. (2003) - Since his rise to power in the early 1990s—and his influence in the town gained official stature in 1994, when Kruchko won his first of three bids for mayor—Kruchko has come to own numerous enterprises, including (but not nearly limited to) “Kru-tika,” a factory and firm producing a number of items, but most notably, tiles for paving sidewalks; at least one gas station located on the edge of town; Chelnochovsk’s principal hotel; and the most luxurious and popular restaurant in the town. In post-Soviet Chelnochovsk, one finds a slightly different story—one in which the trope of the fairytale mocks the very possibility of the heroic or the magical. Keywords: chelnochovsk; city; dima; dniestre; kruchko; land; power; town
• Strategies for Interethnic Conflict Prevention in Transylvania by Marrant, Joel (2000) - Thousands of other social scientists, including many of you in attendance, possess comparable insights into the local conditions of dozens of other zones of potential conflict in Europe. There are also other peoples in the region, most notably the Roma, whose abuse and repression remains unaddressed politically and economically. Keywords: conflict; dao; group; magyar; power; region; rights; romanian; transylvania

• Chemical Weapons and Transnational Community: A History of the Fox Cities-Kurgan Sister City Program by Metzo, Katherine (2006) - In relation to the second objective, local Kurgan doctors have developed a “needs list” of urgent medical supplies. Rather, they start from the premise that they are not so very different from one another, a notion fostered by the idea of sister city programs. Keywords: aid; chemical; cities; city; community; development; facility; fox; kurgan; local; program; russia; shchuchye; sister; weapons
• Establishing a Public Sphere in a Croatian Borderland by Wallace, Dickie (2003) - Working with Radio Knin journalists and with people trying to create other forms of media in Knin, I have explored questions of how they see their role in creating and maintaining their ethno- national and/or civic community and the public sphere, how they envision modernity and Croatia’s place in the “modern” world, how they see their agency, how they relate to the social systems and institutions within which they work. Within less than twenty-four hours of retaking Knin, Croatian Radio & Television (HRT)i workers from Split and Zadar established Hrvatski Radio Knin, which began broadcasting immediately, such was the perceived importance of having a mass media presence in the region. Keywords: community; croatian; croats; hrk; huk; knin; media; radio; serb; station

• Book Review - The Minority of Minorities: The Human and Political Rights of Gypsies in Hungary by Boromisza-Habashi, David (2006) - Molnár Emília introduces the reader to the history of Roma mobilization in the town of Békés and shows how the lively Roma public sphere of the town is dominated by Roma political figures socialized within the assimilationist discourse of state socialism. Neményi Mária engages the discrimination against Hungarian Roma in the healthcare system and finds that whereas healthcare professionals treat the non-Roma as individual cases they perceive the Roma in an ethnic frame and thus relate to them in a more critical and often insulting manner. Keywords: non; roma; students; volume

• Seeing Past the Barricades: Ethnic Intermarriage in Yugoslavia During the Last Three Decades by Botev, Nikolai; Wagner, Richard A. (2000) - SEEING PAST THE BARRICADES: Ethnic Intermarriage in Yugoslavia During the Last Three Decades Nikolai Botev Population Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania Richard A. Wagner Smith College Introduction: Ethnic intermarriage has been a frequent focus of social research for several decades, bringing together scholars with backgrounds in sociology, anthropology, demography, and economics. Another important aspect of the Jen Typewritten Text 29 interrelationship between ethnic intermarriage and nuptiality patterns stems from the fact that intermarriage may produce behavioral assimilation in the form of converging marriage patterns. Keywords: data; eastern; group; intermarriage; marriages; models; patterns; period; population; yugoslavia

• Teaching Participatory Action Research: A Hungarian Experience by Kelemen, Eszter; Balázs, Bálint (2008) - Teaching action researchers acknowledge that “the road to action research also re- quired changes in our teaching practices” (Brydon- Miller, M. et al, 2003. Fifteen years after the system transformation it appears that the breakthrough for action research in Hungary is yet to come: starting points are sporadic, thematic orientation is narrow and the funding for a decisive institutionalization is not available. Keywords: action; course; education; learning; participatory; research; students; teaching

• The Left Side of History: World War II and the Unfulfilled Promise of Communism in Eastern Europe (Ghodsee) by Kapusta-Pofahl, Karen (2016) - As a young man, Thompson becomes enamored by the principles of socialism and, during World War II, volunteers to assist Bulgarian partisans in their attempts to overthrow the Nazi-allied Bulgarian ruler, King Boris III. Ghodsee’s book, part life history and part ethnography, shifts from the life of Thompson to an examination of the question of anti-communist sentiment in the post-socialist era. Keywords: communist; ghodsee
• Death and the Desecrated: Monuments of the Socialist Past in Post-1989 Bulgaria by Voukov, Nikolai (2003) - The ways socialist monuments were treated varied--they were destroyed and dismantled, reshaped and expelled from the central places they occupied, sent to museums and storehouses, secretly stolen at night, sold as metal scraps or remolded into other forms and symbolic representations. It is impossible to go through all the various cases and curious examples of the treatment of socialist monuments, even only in Bulgaria: they are numerous and often need a closer and detailed approach to understand properly the meanings of the symbolic acts and strange utilizations, which monuments underwent. Keywords: communist; dead; death; heroes; memory; monuments; new; past; sacred

• Hann, Chris, Repatriating Polanyi: Market Society in the Visegrád States. Budapest: Central European University Press, 2019. Cloth, $95.00. by Taylor, Mary N (2022) - While he mentions the interdisciplinary Karl Polanyi Center for Global Social Studies in Budapest and the fact that alterglobalization activists are drawn to Polanyi’s ideas, the stark line he draws around the discipline and his dismissal of “token references” to Polanyi’s “best known title” (7) might have led Hann to fail to capture the meaningful circulation of and engagement with Polanyian thought —especially in analyses about countermovement/double movement— among social movement thinkers on the left in the region to explain the current conjuncture in post-state socialist Europe. Arguing that the “dislocation of the 1990s (the disintegration of central planning, the loss of COMECON, the introduction of ‘shock therapy’ and the subsequent mass unemployment and increased inequality) was an “irruption of Karl Polanyi’s ‘market society’ that made the ‘disembedding’ accomplished by 19th century liberalism seem mild and gradualist in comparison” (297). Keywords: hann; market; polanyi; region

• The Return of Ancestral Gods. Modern Ukrainian Paganism as an Alternative Vision for a Nation. By Mariya Lesiv. Montreal & Kingston, London, Ithaca: McGill-Queens University Press. 2013. 244 pp. Notes. Glossary. Index. Photographs. $67.50: Cloth. by Rubchak, Marian (2018) - Finally, the author contemplates the potential for the survival of Ukrainian Paganism as it engages the process of creating a “new indigenous face” for Ukraine (166) and reflects on its place in the extended global community of Pagans. Modern Ukrainian Paganism as an Alternative Vision for a Nation. Keywords: lesiv; paganism; ukraine

• Consumption and Social Change in a Post-Soviet Middle Class (Jennifer Patico) by Klumbytė, Neringa (2009) - Consumption is also an important window into post-Soviet transformations. Neringa Klumbytė, Miami University What do the price of bananas or a rushing Mercedes tell us about post-Soviet citizens and social change? Keywords: consumption; teachers

• Refugees as Harbingers of Political Change in Serbia by Simić, Andrei (2006) - In this essay, I will focus on these and other related topics as viewed through the eyes of Serbian refugees I interviewed, and with many of whom I interacted informally on numerous occasions in purely social settings during the summers of 2002, 2005, and 2006. This phenomenon has also been noted by Svrdlin among Serbian refugees from the Hercegovinian village of Žitomislić6 (2004: 243): Keywords: america; belgrade; bosnian; croatia; europe; informants; june; kosovo; number; politika; refugees; serbian; serbs; srpska; west; yugoslavia
• Multiculturalism in Central and Eastern Europe: Challenge or Threat? by Muhić, Maja (2004) - Such is the case with ECE countries that are pressured to accept Western multicultural models and minority rights as an accession criteria for entering the EU. This brings into question even more the legitimacy of applying Western multicultural models and minority rights in post-socialist countries, where allegedly, these rights and standards were only at a rudimentary level or never existed and thus must be ‘imported’ from abroad. Keywords: countries; kymlicka; macedonia; minority; models; multiculturalism; post; rights; yugoslavia
• Correspondence: A Response to Brana Mijatović by Simić, Andrei (2004) - In it, she described, in some detail, the significance of Yugoslav/Serbian pop singer Djordje Balašević, with particular reference to the recent crises in former Yugoslavia and Serbia. Like them, the author conveniently fails, even in passing, to consider other explanations and antecedents for the numerous tragedies that have characterized the recent history of former Yugoslavia. Keywords: milošević; yugoslavia

• The Privatization of the Georgian Healthcare System by Schecter, Kate (2011) - During a recent conference on Georgian health care held in Washington, DC, many Georgian physicians complained of not being consulted about the reforms and abrupt changes that have profoundly affected their work environment. Despite the draw of the fresh fruit, tea plantations, and the Mediterranean climate, health care in Georgia during the Soviet period was the same as in the rest of the Soviet Union— underfunded (Field and Twigg 2000:43), inadequate, and of low quality. Keywords: care; georgia; government; health; health care; new; reforms; system

• Science, Cynicism, and the Greater Good: Identity and Environmental Discourse in Poland by Wilson, Tracie L. (2006) - This perspective places the organization’s members in a complex relationship with environmental scientists. Many deep ecologists reject scientific approaches to the study of the natural world due to the emphasis on impartial observation from the perspective of the detached outsider.117 One the other hand, in practice the organization has close contacts with several scientists, in part because they realize the important role that such scientists play in conveying legitimacy on the environmental movement, and in making a case for the organization’s specific campaigns. Keywords: activists; environmentalists; europe; movement; nature; poland; polish; pracownia; research; role; science; scientists; university; wolf; wolves

• Rites of Place: Public Commemoration in Russia and Eastern Europe (Buckler and Johnson Eds.) by Fairbanks, Julie (2014) - Prague, on the occasions of funerals for two Czech poets, and Odessa, as portrayed in The Battleship Potemkin and other works, are the subjects of two additional analyses of urban memory by Marek Nekula and Rebecca Stanton, respectively. The editors of this volume, Julie Buckler and Emily D. Johnson, have compiled an impressive collection of articles concerning cultural memory and commemoration in a number of locations in Russia and Eastern Europe. Keywords: articles; commemoration; memory; past

• Waiting for Macedonia: Identity in a Changing World (Ilká Thiessen) by Graan, Andrew (2009) - Throughout the book, Thiessen weaves together her powerful ethnography of her informants’ struggles in a world changed with a broader analysis of the cultural politics in independent Macedonia. Thiessen contends that it was post-1991 anxieties about Macedonia’s relationship to “the West”—rather than the repressive nature of socialism or Yugoslav state ideology—that heightened ethnic tensions in the country and encouraged practices more generally concerned with disambiguating the traditional from the modern, the Balkan from the European. Keywords: europe; macedonia; thiessen

• Blind Spot: How Neoliberalism Infiltrated Global Health (Keshavjee) by Carroll, Jennifer J. (2016) - Keshavjee argues that neoliberal financial and managerial schemes play a defining role in global health today and are transmitted worldwide through NGOs and their largely quantitative metrics of program evaluation, such as patient adherence, rates of referral, and overall cost efficiency. The writing style is smooth and engaging, and Keshavjee excels at rendering these complex ideas extremely intelligible. Keywords: health; healthcare; keshavjee; spot
• aeer-4428 by None (None) - The inevitable marketization of such treatment strategies also calls into question the ethics of “the role of philanthropy in global health” (2013:23), implying that the interests of the Western biomedical establishment may lie more in expanding the international drug market than in the health of developing nations. In her deconstruction of accepted medical practice, Koch is able to effectively reveal a source of stagnation in world health practice and boldly diagnose potential causes of the tuberculosis emergency plaguing Eastern Europe. Keywords: disease; health; koch; treatment

• Socialist Escapes: Breaking Away from Ideology and Everyday Routine in Eastern Europe, 1945 – 1989 (Giustino, Plum, and Vari Eds.) by Rethmann, Petra (2014) - For example, soccer games and motorcycle races marked forms of leisure that removed spectators from the supervision of the state while also offering liberatory spaces away from the holiday resorts and camps organized by socialist parties. Methodologically, this is achieved by the contributors’ deep immersion in socialist worlds, especially East Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria. Keywords: escapes; europe; socialist

• Conjuring Hope: Healing and Magic in Contemporary Russia (Galina Lindquist) by Bazylevych, Maryna (2009) - One might expect that this attention to the established cultural patterns would trigger more detailed historical excursions into the magic in Russia, yet Lindquist’s discussion of the roots of contemporary magic is quite succinct (30-43). By Galina Lindquist. Keywords: lindquist; magic; russia
• Russia’s Arctic Strategies and the Future of the Far North (Laruelle) by Vinkovetsky, Ilya (2016) - Thus, dual contextualizations –within contemporary Russia and among international players – constitute this book’s strength. As this book is aimed at an audience of non-Russian Arctic scholars and policy-makers, the plans and agendas vis-à-vis the Arctic of the actors and decision makers of post-Soviet Russia are contextualized alongside the strategies of other northern countries, with understandable emphasis on Canada, the United States, and Scandinavia. Keywords: arctic; north; russia
• Conference: Anthropology of Professions in Russia: New and Traditional Occupations in Changing Russia, Social Anthropological Approach by Romanov, Pavel (2006) - Several papers were devoted to healing practices in urban and rural contexts of contemporary Russia. Thirty participants have discussed such issues as politics of professional identity, professionalization of work, institutionalization of new professions, power of professionals, everyday life of working place, rites and traditions, folklore, inside life of the communities of the professionals. Keywords: professions; russia

• Obituary: Tibor Bodrogi by Huseby-Darvas, Éva V. (2000) - Bodrogi translated to Hungarian numerous Western classics in anthropology (among others, Morgan, Frazer, and Birket-Smith) and conducted extensive ethnographic field research in Indonesia, New Guinea, and Oceania. Bodrogi was Vice-President of the Hungarian Ethnographic Association, and member of a number of other Hungarian and international professional associations including the Council of Folkart in Hungary, the Societ'e des Oceanistes, the Pacific Arts Association, and the Societe Internationale d'Ethnologie et de Folklore. Keywords: hungarian

• Book Review: The Red Riviera, Kristen Ghodsee by Pi-Sunyer, Oriol (2006) - Microsoft Word - AEER_Fall2006_ Final.doc Anthropology of East Europe Review Volume 24, No. 2 Page 99 BOOK REVIEW THE RED RIVIERA Kristen Ghodsee (2005) Durham and London: Duke University Press Oriol Pi-Sunyer University of Massachusetts, Amherst While reviewing The Red Riviera I learned that Bulgaria was slated to join the EU in about a year and this made me wonder what repercussions might be in store for Ghodsee’s Black Sea resorts. It has been argued that state socialism inevitably led to the infantilization of both men and women, but skills, education, and even substantial exposure to “bourgeois” or “high” culture, would seem to argue that this was not the whole story. Keywords: capital; ghodsee; socialism; tourism

• Guest Editors' Notes by Šumi, Irena; Starman, Hannah (2004) - As we wrote in our project’s plan (http://www.inv.si/hesp/project.htm), The production of both post-colony and post-socialism social science can ... be seen as analogous and structurally comparable for a number of reasons: both base their respective problem fields in a singular, global political process; both organise their perspective, and position their points of view, along a clear, although differently conceptualised, contrast between (Western) metropolises and (non-Western) peripheries; both employ, and produce, generalisations on a global scale. What may not be readily observable from the pieces presented is to what degree we have, within our project, profited from excercising our rather ambitious goal of paralleling rather than directly comparing two vast (and ever increasing) bodies of social scientific production on postcolony and postsocialism respectivelly. Keywords: project; slovenia

• The Internationalization of Higher Education in Kyrgyzstan by Djanaeva, Nurgul N. (2000) - • Cultural (as a result of this challenge, special training programs in Intercultural communication and Orientation appeared in the curriculum of various foreign and Kyrgyzstani universities, for example OTOP in the SFSU and an analogous course is being developed in the IUK ) • Difference in understanding the key issues of higher education • Lack of understanding of higher education problems in the world and in general of higher education development or inter-university cooperation Jen Typewritten Text 137 • Limited knowledge of international higher education and agencies supporting higher education cooperation • making by many interest groups in higher education development as one of the key factors, which leads to the success of higher education. Keywords: development; education; experience; internationalization; kyrgyzstan; process; system; universities

• Housing the New Russia (Zavisca) by Curtin, Emily (2015) - Because housing is such a fundamental and multivalent aspect of people’s lives, this book is also a story about kinship, morality, and post-Soviet political subjectivities. The first part of the book provides a political and economic history of housing in Russia from 1917 onward. Keywords: housing; market; mortgage; zavisca

• New Modes of Capitalist Domination: Transnational Space Between Turkey and Moldova by Demirdirek, Hülya (2007) - It is precisely this professionalism that they say is lacking in Turkish domestics. They insist that their preference has to do with skills, and that they are not discriminating against Turkish workers. Keywords: class; domestics; employers; europe; gagauz; labour; moldova; new; turkey; turkish

• Reckoning with the 'Bosnia Troubles': Trauma, Witnessing, and Politics by Husanović, Jasmina (2004) - The necessary failures of the trials caused by the legal categories that cannot comprehend collective trauma or translate it into consciousness and cognition through legal tools point to something else – to the events of witnessing, witnesses’ bodies and voices, which have a literary, cultural, and jurisprudential speaking power of a higher order (Felman 2002: 166). Because in this knot of traumas, cultural crises and political injustices we are repeatedly called to judge, we also find ourselves permanently situated at a site where imagination, memory, and agency may and should coalesce into emancipatory gestures that traverse violent deadlocks of conventional phantasmatic politics. Keywords: felman; jen; justice; law; text; trauma; witness; witnessing

• Informal Nationalism after Communism: The Everyday Construction of Post-Socialist Identities. Abel Polese, Oleksandra Seliverstova, Emilia Pawłusz, and Jeremy Morris (eds.) London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2018. 232 pp. Notes. Bibliography. £75.00/$99.00, h by Lottholz, Philipp; Manolova, Polina (2020) - However, especially in the case of Rayna Gavrilova’s (Chapter 6) and Timofey Agarin and Līga Rudzīte’s (Chapters 8) the high degree of synthetization and interpretation of data takes over more in-depth descriptions of contextual and procedural details and leaves room for alternative interpretations of the observed realities. With its coverage of a variety of contexts ranging from the Western Balkans and Moldova to Russia and Mongolia and with the wide range of materials and sources analysed, the collection presents interesting ideas and possibilities for forging ahead with the study of post-socialist everyday nationalism. Keywords: building; everyday; nationalism; post

• The Return of Refugees Viewed through the Prism of Blood Revenge by Garb, Paula (2000) - I first came across the phenomenon of blood revenge in the late 1970s and early 1980s in meetings with Abkhazian elders who served on local councils of elders; they told me about how they prevented animosities from escalating into revenge killing. A second argument made by Abkhazian elders is that rape or other indignities to women (harm to women is forbidden by the rules of blood revenge) are acts that preclude any resolution between two families and therefore preclude resolution with the Georgians since the Abkhazians maintain that crimes were committed against women. Keywords: abkhazian; blood; conflict; families; return; revenge

• Grama, Emanuela. Socialist Heritage: The Politics of Past and Place in Romania. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2019. 247 pages. by Cristache, Maria (2022) - Instead of reducing heritage to things or places with inherent and objective value, this field engages with topics such as the role of knowledge and power in heritage production and preservation. In her book, Socialist Heritage: The Politics of Past and Place in Romania, Emanuela Grama presents the fascinating case of the Old Town in Bucharest, raising similar questions about heritage regimes during communism and after 1989. Keywords: chapter; heritage; town

• aeer-3153 by None (None) - This unarticulated displacement of what amounts to class experience onto the fantasy of nation, Kalb and Hálmai tell us, bears the footprints of neoliberal transnationalization and of the concomitant decline of class-based politics, revealing the double crisis of both labor and popular sovereignty that marks our post- Fordist moment. On the other hand, the compilation distinguishes itself in its analytical focus on social relations and class experiences, rather than on cultural difference and localized communities. Keywords: class; europe; populism

• Politicized Justice in Emerging Democracies: A Study of Courts in Russia and Ukraine (Popova) by Eppinger, J.D., PhD., Monica E. (2015) - Chapter 6 alone, on informal practices, breaks compelling new ground in our understanding of post-Soviet judicial work, detailing from the standpoint of participants some of the backstage mechanisms that determine front stage judicial holdings. To investigate what factors promote the development of independent courts and what factors undermine it (2012:2), Popova conducts what anthropologists will recognize as controlled comparison of courts in post-Soviet Russia and Ukraine in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Keywords: courts; law; popova; rule

• aeer-23064 by None (None) - Nevertheless, in both cases residents not only displayed a high degree of ancestral ties to their region, but also overall support for the existence of the park in spite of disagreements with park managers over how to manage forests. Consequently, because survey data is not supplemented with descriptions of social relationships and interactions, the reader learns very little about the character of residents’ pragmatic engagements with park administrators and landscapes. Keywords: communities; parks; petrova

• Correspondence: Reply to Chris Hann by Buchowski, Michal (2005) - Professor Hann reads it as an assault on the work of western anthropologists in general, and his own work in particular. His is an openly patronizing style that, frankly, does not fit my image of Professor Hann as a sensitive and prominent scholar. Keywords: cee; chris; hann; professor

• Tanya Richardson, Kaleidoscopic Odessa: History and Place in Contemporary Ukraine by Carroll, Jennifer (2009) - Richardson provides detailed, ethnographic vignettes that reveal the presence of contradictory histories and narratives, each hinging upon a continuity of place within Odessa. Through her rich ethnographic narratives of high school students in history class and of the elderly sharing their life stories, Richardson reveals how multiple, contradictory histories are passed through kinship and family relations, generating a distinct uncertainty and ambivalence with which young people approach national histories. Keywords: odessa; place; richardson

• Selling Oneself, Selling the Nation: Translating Slovaks for the Eyes of Europe by Larson, Jonathan (2002) - Thus, one should build into the CV a list of tasks approached and completed: “Recommendation and implementation of an educational program for new employees of the organization” “Creation and introduction of a new system of communication for the firm with computer networking” (Benakova 2000:13) An important element of post-1989 projects of “transitioning” Eastern Europe is socialization to new, Western-oriented practices and the construction of new kinds of persons. Keywords: europe; individual; nation; new; slovak; terms

• Managing Editor's Notes by Rotenberg, Robert (2003) - There were several refereed journals whose collections attract more attention even among anthropologists. A specialist group of Russian -speaking scholars established their own annual conference and agreed to publish papers from that event in our autumn number. Keywords: editor; journal; scholars

• Edward Snajdr, Nature Protests: The End of Ecology in Slovakia by Samuelson, Amy (2009) - By focusing on environmental activists, Snajdr draws explicit attention to the ways that government practices can be resisted, most successfully in the case of SZOPK and the removal of the communist regime. As Slovakia represents the clearest example of environmentalism’s role in the downfall of communism, further comparison with the dynamics of environmentalism in post-socialist countries in which environmental activists played a lesser role, if any, in these events would be especially compelling. Keywords: slovakia; snajdr; szopk

• Correspondence: A Response to Andrei Simić by Mijatović, Brana (2004) - It was neither my intention nor my explicit wish to “call upon the reader to embrace the concept of unique Serbian responsibility for the disasters that have characterized the past fourteen years in the history of Yugoslavia.” I also mentioned the complexity of that subject and illustrated this with several different views. Keywords: serbia

• Book Review: Engendering Song: Singing and Subjectivity at Prespa Albanian Weddings. Sugarman, Jane C., 1997. University of Chicago Press. $29.95. XIX+395 (+20) + compact disk. by Friedman, Victor A. (2000) - At the beginning of her excellent book, JS asks what she refers to as the most obvious questions about Prespa Albanian weddings: How is it that these families have developed such a strong sense of place? This is not to say that Prespa Albanian society is not unique in many respects. Keywords: albanian; prespa; singing; songs; wedding

• The Little Girl, The Girl to Whom 'It' Happened, Natural Pregnancy, Saint Mary's Bed (translated by Sára Kaiser, edited by Brent Holt) by Gera, Bitóné Eszter (2002) - There are regions where pregnant women wear their blouses inside out during their pregnancy. Every expectant mother tried just about anything to make this period bearable, and sometimes they took the advice of old women. Keywords: bed; birth; child; girl; midwife; mother; stomach; woman

• Through Another Europe – An Anthology of Travel Writing on the Balkans (Andrew Hammond, ed.) by Ilc, Blaž (2009) - The book begins with an introductory study in which the editor addresses the history of the British and American fascination with the Balkans, its causes (the attraction of the reputed combination of savagery and mystery), its implications (the opening of the peninsula for imperial penetration), and its consequences (the transformation and persistence of specific representations of the inhabitants). Moreover, the editor‟s implicit understanding of the West as homogenous and reducing it to Great Britain and the United States (although simultaneously warning against the pitfalls of homogenising representations of the Balkans) can also be attributed to the lack of a comprehensive approach. Keywords: balkans; representations

• The Captive and the Gift: Cultural Histories of Sovereignty in Russia and the Caucasus. By Bruce Grant. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2009. xxi, 188 pp. Glossary. References. Index. Paper. by Scott, Erik R. (2010) - In his view, Russian captivity narratives were not simply the product of Russia’s literary imagination. In the terms of this dialogue, Russian imperial sovereignty was presented as a “gift of empire,” albeit one that inhabitants of the Caucasus were forced to accept and obligated to offer resources, both real and symbolic, in return (157). Keywords: caucasus; grant; sovereignty

• Editor's Notes by Rotenberg, Robert (2000) - We collect only about $2600 per year in dues and sibscriptions. As we do every year, we will discuss this financial issue at this year's business meeting of the EEAG (November 16 at noon at the San Francisco Hilton during the AAA meetings). Keywords: editors; year

• Czech Political Prisoners: Recovering Face (Rehak) by Kapusta-Pofahl, Karen (2014) - Rehak presents abundant information demonstrating that many Mukls were forced to confess to activities they did or did not commit while being interrogated. While the backbone of the ethnography consists of the life histories of sixty-seven Mukls, Rehak also incorporates participant observation of commemorative events and informal meetings, interviews with Mukls’ spouses and children, archival sources; Mukls’ own published reflections, and a set of intriguing photographic portraits of Mukls and Muklyněs1 she took herself. Keywords: mukls; prisoners; rehak

• Celebrity and Glamour in Contemporary Russia: Shocking Chic (Helena Goscilo and Vlad Strukov Eds.) by Sutcliffe, Benjamin M. (2011) - A number of truly memorable images add to Celebrity and Glamour in Contemporary Russia: aside from the canonical shirtless Putin, there are several dozen photographs and screenshots, ranging from Tsereteli's bronze statue of Luzhkov to an unforgettable shot of Verka Serdiuchka during the Eurovision contest. Celebrity and Glamour in Contemporary Russia is, as the editors admit, necessarily selective as it tries to cover a glut of image-conscious stars and scandal-mongers. Keywords: celebrity; glamour; goscilo; volume

• Editor's Notes by Phillips, Sarah (2009) - To the contrary, open access offers precisely the kind of flexibility required by a journal such as AEER, which historically has changed editorships approximately every three years. Open access promises to exponentially increase the journal’s readership and visibility, among other advantages. Keywords: journal; ojs

• Masquerade and Postsocialism: Ritual and Cultural Dispossession in Bulgaria (Creed) by Bludau, Heidi (2013) - Motivations for mumming are identity-based and run like a thread from the local village to national representations of global modernity, but center on a personal desire, or need, for participation. The ensuing discussion of productive alternatives to Western modernity and development enables comparison with other ritual traditions and makes the Bulgarian case part of a broader conversation on social relations. Keywords: creed; modernity; mumming

• Editor's Notes by Rotenberg, Robert (2001) - At my institution and in many other colleges and universities, calls for reason and long-sightedness seem to fall on deaf ears. Or we might want to think of other strategies for organizing, such as around particular foci and tasks. Keywords: issue; jennifer; university

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