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Product Description: Nothing in Soviet-style communism was as shrouded in mystery as its secret police. Its paid employees were known to few and their actual numbers remain uncertain. Its informers and collaborators operated clandestinely under pseudonyms and met their officers in secret locations...read more
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9786155225994 | Central European Univ Pr, February 28, 2014, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Nothing in Soviet-style communism was as shrouded in mystery as its secret police.
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9780691149721 | Princeton Univ Pr, July 25, 2011, cover price $99.95
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9780691149738 | Princeton Univ Pr, July 25, 2011, cover price $46.00
How has it come about that indigenous cultures, body parts, and sequences of musical notes are considered property? How has the movement from collective to privatized systems affected notions of property? At what point in transaction chains do native cultures, indigenous medicines, or cyberdata become objects and therefore propertized, and what are the social, economic, and ethical considerations for such transformations?Addressing these hotly contested issues and many more, Property in Question interrogates the very concept of property and what is happening to it in the contemporary world, in case studies ranging from Romania to Kazakhstan, Africa to North America. The book examines not only the changing character of the property concept, but also its ideological foundations and political usages. Authors address bio-transactions, music copyright, cyberspace, oil prospecting, debates over privatization of land and factories, and dilemmas arising with new forms of ownership of businesses.Offering a fresh perspective on contemporary economic transformation, this volume is a long overdue investigation of the power of the private property concept, as well as an exploration of how the global economy may be subtly, even invisibly, changing what property means and how we relate to it.
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9781859738825 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, September 4, 2004, cover price $120.95
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9781859738870 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, September 4, 2004, cover price $37.95 | About this edition: How has it come about that indigenous cultures, body parts, and sequences of musical notes are considered property?
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9780801441974 | Cornell Univ Pr, December 1, 2003, cover price $79.50
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9780801488696 | Cornell Univ Pr, December 1, 2003, cover price $34.95
Since 1989, scores of bodies across Eastern Europe have been exhumed and brought to rest in new gravesites. Katherine Verdery investigates why certain corpses -- the bodies of revolutionary leaders, heroes, artists, and other luminaries, as well as more humble folk -- have taken on a political life in the turbulent times following the end of Communist Party rule, and what roles they play in revising the past and reorienting the present. Enlivening and invigorating the dialogue on postsocialist politics, this imaginative study helps us understand the dynamic and deeply symbolic nature of politics -- and how it can breathe new life into old bones. (view table of contents)
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9780231112307 | Columbia Univ Pr, March 1, 1999, cover price $90.00 | About this edition: Since 1989, scores of bodies across Eastern Europe have been exhumed and brought to rest in new gravesites.
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9780231112314, titled "The Political Lives Of Dead Bodies: Reburial and Postsocialist Change" | Columbia Univ Pr, September 30, 2000, cover price $32.00
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9780847690435 | Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, April 1, 1999, cover price $47.00
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9780847690428 | Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, April 1, 1999, cover price $131.00
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9780691011332 | Princeton Univ Pr, May 1, 1996, cover price $60.00
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9780691011325 | Princeton Univ Pr, February 16, 1996, cover price $41.95
Product Description: The current transformation of many Eastern European societies is impossible to understand without comprehending the intellectual struggles surrounding nationalism in the region. Anthropologist Katherine Verdery shows how the example of Romania suggests that current ethnic tensions come not from a resurrection of pre-Communist Nationalism but from the strengthening of national ideologies under Communist Party rule...read more
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9780520072169 | Univ of California Pr, August 1, 1991, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: The current transformation of many Eastern European societies is impossible to understand without comprehending the intellectual struggles surrounding nationalism in the region.
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9780520203587 | Reprint edition (Univ of California Pr on Demand, August 1, 1995), cover price $34.95 | About this edition: The current transformation of many Eastern European societies is impossible to understand without comprehending the intellectual struggles surrounding nationalism in the region.
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9780936586137 | Yale Center for Intl & Area studies, June 1, 1995, cover price $42.01
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9780520048799 | Univ of California Pr, October 1, 1983, cover price $85.00
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