My Life as a Spy

Klappentext Katherine Verdery is Julien J. Studley Faculty Scholar and Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and the author of numerous books, including The Vanishing Hectare: Property and Value in Postsocialist Transylvania and Secrets and Truths: Ethnography in the Archive of Romania's Secret Police. Zusammenfassung Katherine Verdery analyzes the 2!781 page surveillance file the Romanian secret police compiled on her during her research trips to Transylvania in the 1970s and 1980s. Reading it led her to question her identity and also revealed how deeply the secret police was embedded in everyday life.

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Katherine Verdery

Zusammenfassung
Katherine Verdery analyzes the 2,781 page surveillance file the Romanian secret police compiled on her during her research trips to Transylvania in the 1970s and 1980s. Reading it led her to question her identity and also revealed how deeply the secret police was embedded in everyday life.

Inhalt

Preface xi
A Note of Fonts, Pseudonyms, and Pronunciation xiii
Acknowledgments xv
Prologue 1
Part I. Research under Surveillance

1. The 1970s: "The Folklorist" as Military Spy 33
2. The 1980s: The Enemy's Many Masks 111
   Excursus. Reflections on Reading One's File 181
   Part II. Inside the Mechanisms of Surveillance
3. Revelations 195
4. Ruminations 277
   Epilogue 295
   Notes 299
   Bibliography 309
   Index 315