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Anthropology ofEast Europe Review 

Issue Editors: 

Melissa Caldwell and 


Nancy Ries 

Robert Rotenberg, Managing EDitor 


Barbara West, Associate Editor 

Eva Huseby-Darvas, Nancy Ries 

Matti Bunz/, Book Review Editor 


LaszlO Kart, Media Editor 


SPECIAL ISSUE: NEW DIRECTIONS IN POSTSOCIALIST STUDIES 
CONTENTS 

A Note From the Managing Editor ........................................................................................... 3 


Robert Rotenberg DePaul University 

Introduction to the Issue ........................................................................................................... 5 


Melissa L. Caldwell Harvard University 

Discussant Remarks: Mobility, Labor, and Ties that Bind ....................................................... 9 


Sascha Goluboff, Washington and Lee University 

Brain Drain, Bogus Asylum Seekers, and Babies: Conflicting Discourses of Mobility and 
Fertility in Bulgaria and the European Union ......................................................................... 13 

Kristen Ghodsee, Bowdoin College 

Between Tragedy and Reality: Armenian Women's Labor Migration in the Post-Soviet 
Period ...................................................................................................................................... 23 

Armine Ishkanian. 

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 .................... 37 


Jonathan Larson University of Michigan 

Living in Truth: Physics as a Way ofLife..............................................................................43 


Pal Nyiri, Joana Breidenbach University ofOxford 

Body-alterations and the Creation ofthe Other: A Macedonian case ................................... .55 


I1ka Thiessen St. Thomas University 

Who Would Create a Czech Feminism?" Challenging Assumptions in the Process of 
Creating Relevant Feminisms in the Czech Republic ............................................................ 61 

Karen Kapusta-Pofahl University ofMinnesota 

Endangering Masculinity in Kosova: Can Albanian women say No? ................................... 71 


Nita Luci University of Michigan 

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After The Folkloric Movement: Traditional Life In Post-Socialist Moldova ........................ 83 


Jennifer Cas Indiana University 

Architecture and the State: Moscow Urban Concepts after Socialism ................................... 91 


Anna Sokolina 

The Life of Baldan Chimitovich Gomboev:Using Personal Narratives to Approach Buriat 
Post-Soviet Music ................................................................................................................. 101 

Tristra Newyear Indiana University 

The role and development of Shamanistic discourse among Southern Siberian ethnic groups 
in the Post-Soviet period ....................................................................................................... 1 09 

Andrei Vinogradov University of Saskatchewan 

(Consumer) Paradise Lost:Capitalist Dynamics And Disenchantment In Rural Bulgaria ... 119 

Gerald W. Creed Hunter College and the Graduate School, City University of New York 

On the preferential treatment of Hungarians living in neighbouring countries .................... 127 


Petteri Laihonen and Heino Nyyssonen University of Jyvaskyla 

Nationalism, Marxism, and Western Popular Culture in Yugoslavia: Ideologies, Genuine 
and Spurious ......................................................................................................................... 135 

Andrei Simit University of Southern California 

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