CONTENTS OF THIS READER
SESSION 1
* Hofer, Tamás (1968) Anthropologists and Native Ethnographers in Central European Villages:
Comparative Notes on the Professional Personality of Two Disciplines. Current Anthropology, Vol.
9, No. 4. (Oct. 1968), 311­315. (6 pages)
* Halpern, Joel Martin and David A. Kideckel (1983) Anthropology of Eastern Europe. Annual
Review of Anthropology, Vol. 12. (1983), 377­402. (27 pages)
* Sampson, Steven (1991) Is There an Anthropology of Socialism? Anthropology Today, Vol. 7, No.
(Oct. 1991), 16­19. (5 pages)
* Galbraith, Marysia H. (2004) Between East and West: Geographic Metaphors of Identity in
Poland. Ethos, Vol. 32, No. 1 (Spring 2004), 51­81. (31 pages)
* Arnason, Johann P. (2005) Introduction: Demarcating East-Central Europe. European Journal of
Social Theory, Vol. 8, No. 4, 387­400. (14 pages)
SESSION 2
* Burawoy, Michael and János Lukács (1985) Mythologies of Work: A Comparison of Firms in
State Socialism and Advanced Capitalism. American Sociological Review, Vol. 50, No. 6 (Dec. 1985),
723­737. (16 pages)
* Sampson, Steven L. (1987) The Second Economy of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.
Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 493, The Informal Economy (Sep.
1987), 120­136. (18 pages)
* Verdery, Katherine (1991) Theorizing Socialism: A Prologue to the `Transition'. American
Ethnologist, Vol. 18, No. 3, Representations of Europe: Transforming State, Society, and Identity
(Aug. 1991), 419­439. (22 pages)
* Lampland, Martha (1991) Pigs, Party Secretaries, and Private Lives in Hungary. American
Ethnologist, Vol. 18, No. 3, Representations of Europe: Transforming State, Society, and Identity.
(Aug. 1991), 459­479. (22 pages)
* Humphrey, Caroline (1991) `Icebergs', Barter, and the Mafia in Provincial Russia. Anthropology
Today, Vol. 7, No. 2 (Apr. 1991), 8­13. (7 pages)
* Verdery, Katherine (1996) What Was Socialism, and Why Did It Fall? In What Was Socialism, and
What Comes Next? (Princeton: Princeton University Press), 19­38. (11 pages)
SESSION 3
* Konstantinov, Yulian (1996) Patterns of Reinterpretation: Trader-Tourism in the Balkans
(Bulgaria) as a Picaresque Metaphorical Enactment of Post-Totalitarianism. American Ethnologist,
Vol. 23, No. 4. (Nov. 1996), 762­782. (22 pages)
ˇ Czegledy, André P. (1998) Villas of Wealth: A Historical Perspective on New Residences in PostSocialist
Hungary. City and Society, Vol. 10, No. 1, 245­268. (24 pages)
* Berdahl, Daphne (2001) "Go, Trabi, Go!": Reflections on a Car and Its Symbolization over Time.
Anthropology and Humanism, Vol. 25, No. 2, 131­141. (11 pages)
* Harper, Krista (2005) "Wild Capitalism" and "Ecocolonialism": A Tale of Two Rivers. American
Anthropologist, Vol. 107, No. 2. (Jun. 2005), 221­233. (13 pages)
SESSION 4
* Gal, Susan (1991) Bartók's Funeral: Representations of Europe in Hungarian Political Rhetoric.
American Ethnologist, Vol. 18, No. 3, Representations of Europe: Transforming State, Society, and
Identity (Aug. 1991), 440­458. (20 pages)
* Borneman, John (1993) Uniting the German Nation: Law, Narrative, and Historicity. American
Ethnologist, Vol. 20, No. 2 (May 1993), 288­311. (25 pages)
* Holy, Ladislav (1994) Metaphors of the Natural and the Artificial in Czech Political Discourse.
Man, New Series, Vol. 29, No. 4 (Dec. 1994), 809­829. (22 pages)
* Brubaker, Rogers (1996) National Minorities, Nationalizing States, and External National
Homelands in the New Europe. In Nationalism Reframed: Nationhood and the National Question in the
New Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 55­76. (12 pages)
* Hayden, Robert M. (1996) Imagined Communities and Real Victims: Self-Determination and
Ethnic Cleansing in Yugoslavia. American Ethnologist, Vol. 23, No. 4 (Nov. 1996), 783­801. (20
pages)
* White, Jenny B. (1997) Turks in the New Germany. American Anthropologist, Vol. 99, No. 4 (Winter
1997), 754­769. (16 pages)
* Hann, Chris (1998) Postsocialist Nationalism: Rediscovering the Past in Southeast Poland. Slavic
Review, Vol. 57, No. 4 (Winter 1998), 840­863. (25 pages)
* Wolfe, Thomas C. (2000) Cultures and Communities in the Anthropology of Eastern Europe and
the Former Soviet Union. Annual Review of Anthropology, Vol. 29 (2000), 195­216. (24 pages)
* Lemon, Alaina (2002) Without a `Concepť? Race as Discursive Practice. Slavic Review, Vol. 61, No.
1 (Spring 2002), 54­61. (9 pages)