My life as a spy : investigations in a secret police file / Katherine Verdery.
My life as a spy : investigations in a secret police file / Katherine Verdery.
My life as a spy : investigations in a secret police file / Katherine Verdery.
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Durham : Duke University Press, 2018.
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G 2018/5354
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English
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xvi, 323 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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text
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
The 1970s : "the folklorist" as military spy -- The 1980s : the enemy's many masks -- Excursus : reflections on reading one's file -- Revelations -- Ruminations.
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Durham : Duke University Press, 2018.
Date Published
2018.
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Summary
As Katherine Verdery observes, "There's nothing like reading your secret police file to make you wonder who you really are." In 1973 Verdery began her doctoral fieldwork in the Transylvanian region of Romania, ruled at the time by communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu. She returned several times over the next twenty-five years, during which time the...
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My life as a spy : investigations in a secret police file / Katherine Verdery.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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©2018
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G 2018/5354
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74VKV8ZEXBed
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKV8ZEXBed
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ISBN
9780822370819
DDC
949.803092 B
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991024186319402626
