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Steven Sampson

Steven Sampson

Professor emeritus

Steven Sampson

Tattoos and Ankle Bracelets: Recalling Fieldwork in Romania,

Author

  • Steven Sampson

Editor

  • Raluca Mateoc

Summary, in English

This article recapitulates the effect of my early fieldwork in socialist Romania, in which people's coping with bureaucracy through informal mechanisms of improvization, corruption, rumor creation, etc. come to mark by subsequent research interest, like a tatoo, and like the electronic ankle bracelet on the home prisoner, tend to pull me back into the same kind of theme, for better or for worse. Chapter in a volume on anthropologists working in Eastern Europe in the socialist period.

Department/s

  • Social Anthropology

Publishing year

2019

Language

English

Pages

1-15

Publication/Series

Freibourg Studies in Social Anthropology ISBN 978-3-643-80247-7

Volume

51

Document type

Book chapter

Publisher

LIT Verlag

Topic

  • Social Anthropology

Keywords

  • social anthropology
  • Romania
  • ethnography
  • fieldwork

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISBN: 978-3-643-80247-7