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My Life as a Spy : Investigations in a Secret Police File /

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 sev...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Verdery, Katherine, 1948- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2018.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The 1970s : "the folklorist" as military spy
  • The 1980s : the enemy's many masks
  • Excursus : reflections on reading one's file
  • Revelations
  • Ruminations.