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Steven Sampson

Steven Sampson

Professor emeritus

Steven Sampson

Kathy meets Vera in Communist Romania (Book Review) : Book Review of K. Verdery, 'My Life as a Spy: Investigations in a Secret Police File'

Author

  • Steven Sampson

Summary, in English

Review of Katherine Verdery's autobiographical work in which she describes her fieldwork in Romania from 1973 to 1988 using the 2781 pages of her Romanian secret police file, in which he is code named "Vera". This is the story of how "Kathy" meets "Vera".

Department/s

  • Social Anthropology

Publishing year

2019

Language

English

Pages

1-4

Publication/Series

Political and Legal Anthropology Review

Volume

2019

Issue

May

Document type

Review (Book/Film/Exhibition/etc.)

Publisher

John Wiley & Sons Inc.

Topic

  • Social Anthropology

Keywords

  • Social Anthropology
  • Romania
  • Surveillance
  • Secret Police/Securitatea
  • Ethnography
  • Documents
  • Verdery, Katherine

Status

Accepted/in press