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Kathy meets Vera in Communist Romania (Book Review) : Book Review of K. Verdery, 'My Life as a Spy: Investigations in a Secret Police File'

Sampson, Steven LU (2019) In Political and Legal Anthropology Review 2019(May). p.1-4
Abstract
Review of Katherine Verdery's autobiographical work in which she describes her fieldwork in Romania from 1973 to 1988 using the 2781 pages of her Romanian secret police file, in which he is code named "Vera". This is the story of how "Kathy" meets "Vera".
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organization
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Contribution to journal
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in press
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keywords
Social Anthropology, Romania, Surveillance, Secret Police/Securitatea, Ethnography, Documents, Verdery, Katherine
in
Political and Legal Anthropology Review
volume
2019
issue
May
pages
4 pages
publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
language
English
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yes
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1259bc53-8f6b-4ed8-b651-358065d376de
alternative location
https://polarjournal.org/2019/06/19/in-communist-romania/
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2019-06-03 19:38:12
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