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
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.