Editor Anthropology of East Europe Review Volume 27, No. 1 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: GEORGIAN ORTHODOX PRIVILEGE AND RELIGIOUS MINORITIES’ RESPONSE TO INVISIBILITY…………………………………………...……………...20 William Eastwood POLITICS OF IDENTITY THROUGH SCHOOL PRIMERS: DISCURSIVE CONSTRUCTION OF LEGITIMATE IMAGE OF STATE, NATION AND SOCIETY IN SOVIET AND INDEPENDENT UKRAINE…………………………………………………………………………...……………………...29 Olga Filippova SOCIAL PLURALISM IN THE POSTSOCIALIST CITY: DIVERGING CONSUMER GROUPS IN THE CONSUMPTION LANDSCAPE OF STARA ZAGORA, BULGARIA………..…………………………37 Grant Jude Gartska FROM BARAKHOLKA TO SHOPPING MALL: TRANSFORMATION OF RETAIL SPACES IN ST. PETERSBURG……………………………………………………………………….....…………………..51 Anna Zhelnina WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR OUR HEALTH? CHANGING CONCEPTS OF STATE AND THE INDIVIDUAL IN POST-SOVIET UKRAINE………………………………………..……………………65 Maryna Bazylevych Anthropology of East Europe Review Volume 27, No. 1 Page 2 THE GUEST AT THE DINING TABLE: ECONOMIC TRANSITIONS AND THE RESHAPING OF HOSPITALITY—REFLECTIONS FROM BATUMI AND ODESSA……………………………….…...76 Abel Polese ERRATUM Reprinted from Volume 26 (2), Spring 2008 SERBIA, BETWIXT AND BETWEEN: CULTURE, POLITICS AND IMAGES OF THE WEST……..88 Andrei Simic BOOK REVIEWS TANYA RICHARDSON, KALEIDOSCOPIC ODESSA: HISTORY AND PLACE IN CONTEMPORARY UKRAINE.......................................................................................................................................................99 (Jennifer Carroll, University of Washington) EDWARD SNAJDR, NATURE PROTESTS: THE END OF ECOLOGY IN SLOVAKIA………...…... …101 (Amy Samuelson, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) XAVIER BOUGAREL, ELISSA HELMS AND GER DUIJZINGS, EDS., THE NEW BOSNIAN MOSAIC: IDENTITIES, MEMORIES AND MORAL CLAIMS IN A POST-WAR SOCIETY…….…………..………103 . (Peter Locke, Princeton University) BOHUSLAV SALANDA, CESKA VENICE SIROKY DUL…………………………………………….105 (Zdenek Salzmann, Northern Arizona University) Anthropology of East Europe Review Volume 27, No. 1 Page 3 The web page for the Anthropology of East Europe Review/East European Anthropology Group contains links to most of the previously published articles. It can be found at: http://condor.depaul.edu/~rrotenbe/aeer/ Editor-in-chief: Sarah D. Phillips, Anthropology of East Europe Review, Indiana University, Department of Anthropology, Student Building 130, 701 East Kirkwood Avenue, Bloomington, IN 47405, Phone: +1-812-855-0216, Fax: +1-812-855-4358, Email: anthroeasteuropereview@gmail.com Web editor: Robert Rotenberg, International Studies Program, DePaul University, 2320 North Kenmore Avenue Chicago, Illinois, 60614. Phone: 312/325-7460; Fax: 312/325-7452; Email: rrotenbe@depaul.edu © Indiana University 2009 ISSN: 1054-4720 Please address all requests for membership in the East European Anthropology Group ($30/yr. for full-time faculty or other professional, $15/yr. for students and part-time faculty, $50/yr. for sustaining subscribers; European subscribers should write for special rates.), institutional or library subscriptions to the Review ($50), or additional copies of a back issue ($20) to the managing editor or manage your subscription online at http://condor.depaul.edu/~rrotenbe/aeer/Subscription.htm