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: THE CASE OF THE RENI DISTRICT, UKRANIAN BESSARABIA………………………………………………………………………………………………….17 Vsevolod Samokhvalov, International Center for Black Sea Studies, Greece & Oleg Samokhvalov, Socio- Psychological Service of Reni District, Ukraine BORDER-CROSSING AS A STRATEGY OF DAILY SURVIVAL: THE ODESSA-CHISINAU ELEKTRICHKA………………………………………………………………………………28 Abel Polese, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France BESSARABIAN BULGARIANS: STUDYING IN BULGARIA, SEARCHING FOR AN IDENTITY…………………..38 Alexander Ganchev, University of Odessa STEP ACROSS THE BORDER: TRANSNATIONAL ENCOUNTERS AND NATION-MAKING……………………...44 Hülya Demirdirek, University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada CONTINUITY AND IDENTITY IN THE LOCAL COMMUNITY: 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: A HISTORY OF THE FOX CITIES-KURGAN SISTER CITY PROGRAM……………………………………………………………………………………………………………….....76 Katherine Metzo, University of North Carolina, Charlotte DRINKING AND NOSTALGIA: SOCIAL IMAGINATION IN POSTSOCIALIST ROMANIA……………………………….85 Narcis S. Tulbure, Department of Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh REVIEWS BOOK REVIEW- PLAYING SOLDIERS IN BOHEMIA: AN ETHNOGRAPHY OF NATO MEMBERSHIP …………….….94 Daniel Burland, University of Massachusetts, Amherst BOOK REVIEW - THE MINORITY OF MINORITES: THE HUMAN AND POLITICAL RIGHTS OF GYPSIES IN HUNGARY ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………...96 David Boromisza-Habashi, University of Massachusetts, Amherst CONFERENCE: ANTHROPOLOGY OF PROFESSIONS IN RUSSIA: NEW AND TRADITIONAL OCCUPATIONS IN CHANGING RUSSIA, SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL APPROACH…………………………………………………………98 Pavel Romanov, Saratov State Technical University, Saratov, Russia CONFERENCE: ORAL HISTORY AND (POST)SOCIALIST SOCIETIES…………………………………………………….99 Anselma Gallimat, University of Newcastle, UK TEACHING REFLECTIONS ON TEACHING ANTHROPOLOGY THROUGH THE CASE STUDY …………………………………….103 Sarah D. Phillips, Department of Anthropology, Indiana University Anthropology of East Europe Review Volume 24, No. 1, Spring 2006 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 this URL: http://Las1.depaul.edu/Aeer/ Please address all requests for membership in the East European Anthropology Group to the managing editors ($50/yr. for Sustaining Members, $30/yr. for full-time faculty and professionals, $15/yr for students and part-time faculty; international subscribers should write for special rates. Institutional subscriptions to the Review cost $50/yr.; we offer discounted rates for some international libraries). Additional copies of a back issue are available ($20). Editors-in-chief: Krista Harper and Julie Hemment, Anthropology of East Europe Review, Department of Anthropology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003. Phone: +1-413/545-2221; Fax: +1-413/545-9494; E-mail: anthroeasteuropereview@gmail.com Web editor: Robert Rotenberg, International Studies Program, DePaul University, 2320 North Kenmore Ave, Chicago, Illinois, 60614. Phone: 312/325-7460; Fax 312/325-7452; Email: rrotenbe@wppost.depaul.edu. © University of Massachusetts, Amherst 2010 ISSN: 1054-4720 http://www.depaul.edu/~rrotenbe/aeer/�