Altering states
Subtitle: ethnographies of transition in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union
By: edited by Daphne Berdahl, Matti Bunzl and Martha Lampland
Contributors: Berdahl, Daphne, 1964-; Bunzl, Matti, 1971-; Lampland, Martha
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Language: eng
Number of pages: 252
Subjects: Post-communism -- Europe, Eastern; Post-communism -- Former Soviet republics; Europe, Eastern -- Social conditions -- 1989-; Former Soviet republics -- Social conditions
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-239) and index
Table of contents: title: Introduction: an anthropology of postsocialism / Daphne Berdahl; title: Talking transit and spectating transition: the Moscow metro / Alaina Lemon; title: To hear the voices still heard: on synagogue restoration in Eastern Europe / Philip V. Bohlman; title: The Prague experience: gay male sex tourism and the neocolonial invention of an embodied border / Matti Bunzl; title: Contested landscapes: reconstructing environment and memory in postsocialist Saxony-Anhalt / Hermine G. De Soto; title: The shape of national time: daily life, history, and identity during Armenia's transition to independence, 1991-1994 / Stephanie Platz; title: Memory, history, and remembrance work in Dresden / Elizabeth A. Ten Dyke; title: "We've kicked the habit": (anti)politics of art's autonomy and transition in Hungary / Anna Szemere; title: Tropes of depth and the Russian soul: openings and closings in post-Soviet Siberia / Dale Pesman