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.

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