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Published March 2026 A Sea of Transience
Poetics, Politics and Aesthetics along the Black Sea Coast
Khalvashi, T. & Demant Frederiksen, M. (eds)
Transience is found in every meeting, encounter and form of coexistence between people and things that exist and live by, or move across or along, the Black Sea. With particular attention to poetics, politics and aesthetics, this volume focuses on the scales of transient moments and histories, and enables readers to see and sense the many forms of transience that occur in a given landscape, sea or space.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Environmental Studies (General)
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Published March 2024
A Taste for Oppression
A Political Ethnography of Everyday Life in Belarus
Hervouet, R.
Belarus has emerged from communism in a unique manner. The author, who has lived in Belarus for several years, highlights several mechanisms of tyranny, beyond the regime’s ability to control and repress, which should not be underestimated. The book sheds light on the reasons why part of the population supports Alexander Lukashenko and takes a fresh look at the functioning of what has been called 'the last dictatorship in Europe'.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology
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Published December 2021
Waiting for Elijah
Time and Encounter in a Bosnian Landscape
HadžiMuhamedović, S.
Waiting for Elijah is an intimate portrait of time-reckoning, syncretism and proximity in one of the world’s most polarized places, the Bosnian Field of Gacko. Based on long-term, multi-sited fieldwork, it examines the complexity of time situated between folk cosmology, political constructions of history and bodily experiences of a landscape in transition.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion Refugee and Migration Studies
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Published May 2026
Sacred Places, Emerging Spaces
Religious Pluralism in the Post-Soviet Caucasus
Darieva, T., Mühlfried, F., & Tuite, K. (eds)
Though long-associated with violence, the Caucasus is a region rich with spirituality. Based on fresh ethnographies and studies of sacred sites in Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Russia, Sacred Places, Emerging Spaces discusses vanishing and emerging sacred places in the multi-ethnic and multi-religious post-Soviet Caucasus.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion Sociology
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Published April 2020
Staging Citizenship
Roma, Performance and Belonging in EU Romania
Szeman, I.
Staging Citizenship explores a wide range of Roma performances and representations—from live music and cultural performances to Gypsy soaps and reality TV shows, demonstrating how disenfranchised urban Roma claim cultural citizenship and belonging in music, dance, activism and everyday encounters.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Performance Studies
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Published September 2021
Gender in Georgia
Feminist Perspectives on Culture, Nation, and History in the South Caucasus
Barkaia, M. & Waterston, A. (eds)
As Georgia seeks to reinvent itself in the post-Soviet period, Georgian women are maneuvering to adjust to the new economic, social and political order. Gender in Georgia brings together an international group of feminist scholars to explore the socio-political conditions that have shaped gender dynamics in Georgia from the late 19th century to the present.
Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)
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Published August 2019
Hunters, Gatherers, and Practitioners of Powerlessness
An Ethnography of the Degraded in Postsocialist Poland
Rakowski, T.
Practitioners of Powerlessness gives a dramatic account of life after the socio-economic transformations of the 1990s in Poland, which left many people impoverished and unemployed.
Subject: Anthropology (General)
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Published March 2018
Yearnings in the Meantime
'Normal Lives' and the State in a Sarajevo Apartment Complex
Jansen, S.
An ethnographic account, this book looks into a Sarajevo apartment building as its inhabitants yearn for “normal lives,” over a decade after the war and the disintegration of Socialist Yugoslavia. Starting from everyday concerns, it freshly explores how the time and place in which we are caught shape our hopes and fears.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Urban Studies Political and Economic Anthropology
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Published March 2018
Oikos and Market
Explorations in Self-Sufficiency after Socialism
Gudeman, S. & Hann, C. (eds)
This volume’s six comparative investigations of postsocialist communities illuminate the universal significance of Aristotle’s vision of the oikos, an economy based on the order of the house. These postsocialist configurations show that economies depend on macro institutions of markets and states, and also on the micro institutions of families, communities, and house economies.
Subject: Anthropology (General)
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Published May 2017
Economy and Ritual
Studies of Postsocialist Transformations
Gudeman, S. & Hann, C. (eds)
Common sense suggests that rituals drain economic wealth and that rational actions are antithetical to rituals. These six ethnographies offer a different vision. Comparative, historical, and contemporary, the studies stretch from Macedonia to Kyrgyzstan, each one illuminating the changes in an area as it emerged from socialism and (re-)entered market society.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology
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Published September 2015
Places of Pain
Forced Displacement, Popular Memory and Trans-local Identities in Bosnian War-torn Communities
Halilovich, H.
This compelling and intimate description of places of pain and (be)longing that were lost during the 1992–95 war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as of survivors’ places of resettlement in Australia, Europe and North America, serves as a powerful illustration of the complex interplay between place, memory and identity.
Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General) Peace and Conflict Studies Memory Studies
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Published April 2013
Crude Domination
An Anthropology of Oil
Behrends, A., Reyna, S. P. & Schlee, G. (eds)
Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published November 2013
Multiple Moralities and Religions in Post-Soviet Russia
Zigon, J. (ed)
Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General)
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Published November 2011
Postsocialist Europe
Anthropological Perspectives from Home
Kurti, L. & Skalník, P. (Eds.)
Subject: Anthropology (General)
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Published October 2010
Above the Death Pits, Beneath the Flag
Youth Voyages to Poland and the Performance of Israeli National Identity
Feldman, J.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Jewish Studies Memory Studies Travel and Tourism
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Published June 2011
Strangers Either Way
The Lives of Croatian Refugees in their New Home
Capo Žmegač, J.
Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published October 2007
Exploring Gypsiness
Power, Exchange and Interdependence in a Transylvanian Village
Engebrigtsen, A.
Subject: Anthropology (General)
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Published January 2008
Postsocialism
Politics and Emotions in Central and Eastern Europe
Svasek M. (ed)
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)
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Published October 2006
Who Owns the Past?
The Politics of Time in a 'Model' Bulgarian Village
Kaneff, D.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology
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