The Anthropology of East Europe Review: Central Europe, Eastern 

Europe and Eurasia 


VOLCME 21. l'\umber,:2 Fall,2003 

Editors 

Barb West 


Robert Rotenberg 

Eva Huseby-Darvas 


Nancy Ries 

lHatti Bunzl 


Laszlo Kiirti 


SPECIAL ISSUE: ETHNOGRAPHIES OF POSTSOCIALISM 


CONTENTS 

INTRODUCTION TO SPECIAL ISSCE: ETH1':OGRAPHIES OF POSTSOCIALISM ....................................................... 3 


Julie Hemment, Guest Editor University of yfassachusetts, Amherst ...................................................................... 3 


DEPARTURES FROM HOME: CZECH PERSPECTIVES ON DIFFERENCE ................................................................... 7 


David Altshuler. American Bar Foundation ............................................................................................................. 7 


THE NEW POWER OF OLD MEN: PRIV ATISATION A;'!D FAMIL Y RELATIONS IN MESTERSzALLAs 

(HUNGARy) ......................................................................................................................................................................... 15 


TatjanaThelen, Max Planck Institute ..................................................................................................................... 15 


MAPPING THE KINGDOM OF PLASTIC BAGS: THE TOPOGRAPHY OF FAIRYTALE CYNICISM IN 

CHELNOCHOVSK-NA-DNIESTRE. UKRAINE ................................................................................................................ 23 


Diana R. Blank, University of California at Berkeley ............................................................................................ 23 


THE CHALLENGES OF SOCIALIZATION IN BUSINESS EDUCATION: THE CASE OF THE SCHOOL OF 

MANAGEMENT. ST. PETERSBURG STATE UNIVERSlTY ........................................................................................... 29 


PROTECTI1':G THE YOUNG AND SENDING OF THE DEAD: OLD BELIEF AND THE POLITICS OF "RELIGIOUS 


DRINK, DRANK, DRUNK: A SOCIAL· POLITICAL GRAMMAR OF RUSSIAN DRINKING PRACTICES IN A 


Irina Pshenichnikova. St. Petersburg State University ........................................................................................... 29 


REVIVAL" IN THE RUSSIAN URALS .............................................................................................................................. 37 


Douglas J. Rogers. 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 ............ 49 


Nikolai Voukov. Central European University, Budapest. ..................................................................................... 49 


HISTORY, SUBVERSION AND LOW-INTEi\SITY CONFLICT IN THE SOVIET UNION 1 
......................................... 57 


Robert Owen Krikorian, Harvard University ......................................................................................................... 57 


RETHINKING DEVELOPtvlENTTEMPLATES:WOMEN AND MICROCREDIT I;,! POST·SOCIALIST 

SOUTHEASTER;'! EUROPE ................................................................................................................................................ 65 


Kristen Ghodsee. Bowdoin College ....................................................................................................................... 65 


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DRIVEN WOMEN: RECONCEPTUALIZING THE TRAFFIC IN WOMEN IN THE MARGINS OF EUROPE 

THROUGH THE CASE OF GAGACZ MOBILE DOMESTICS IN ISTANBU ............................................................... 73 


Leyla J. Keough. University of Massachusetts, Amherst.. ..................................................................................... 73 


NATIONALIST TENSIONS: TRADITION AND MODERNITY IN DISCUSSIONS OF KYRGYZ BRIDE-CAPTURE I81 


Ethan \ViIensky-Lanford, Reed College ................................................................................................................ 81 


THE "NATION-ING" OF GENDER? DONOR POLICIES, ISLAM. AND WOMEN'S NGOS IN POST-WAR BOSNIA­
HERZEGOVINA ................................................................................................................................................................... 85 


Elissa Helms. University of Pittsburgh .................................................................................................................. 85 


ESTABLISHING A PUBLIC SPHERE IN A CROATIAN BORDERLAND ...................................................................... 95 


Dickie Wallace, Uni versity of ivlassachusetts Amherst ......................................................................................... 95 


QUEERING CIVIL SOCIETY IN POSTSOCIALIST SLOVAKIA .................................................................................. 103 


Viera Wallace-Lorencova, University of Massachusetts, Amherst ...................................................................... 103 


REFLECTIONS ON FIELDWORK WITH ROMANI WOMEN: RACE, CLASS, AND FEMINISM IN BOSNJA­
HERZEGOVINA ................................................................................................................................................................. 113 


Jennifer Erickson, University of Oregon .............................................................................................................. 113 


FILM REVIEW: "RETCRNING HOME: REVIVAL OF A BOSNIAN VILLAGE" TONE BRINGA (PRODUCER, 

ANTHROPOLOGIST) WITH PETER LOlZOS (CONSULTANT) ................................................................................... 119 


Reviewer: Elissa Helms. University of Pittsburgh ............................................................................................... 119 


ERRATA: In the Spring 2003 AEER, Sharon Hudgin's university affiliation was incorrectly identified on her 
article. "A Trinity of Siberian Easter-Season Meals." She was formerly at the University of Maryland, and is 1 

now an independent scholar and researcher in Texas. She was never affiliated with Northeastern Illinois I 
University. We apologize for the mistake. (, 

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