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Masquerade and postsocialism : ritual and cultural dispossession in Bulgaria

"Brilliant ... An outstanding demonstration of how analysis of the paradoxes of the postsocialist condition can contribute to anthropological theory and to the critique of Europ-American notions of modernity."--Chris Hann, Max Planck Institute For Social Anthropology
Print Book, English, ©2011
Indiana University Press, Bloomington, ©2011
xi, 254 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
9780253355577, 9780253222619, 0253355575, 0253222613
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AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Cultural Dispossession1. A Mumming Season2. Gender and Sexuality3. Civil Society and Democracy4. Autonomy and Community5. Ethnicity and NationalismConclusion: Modernity in DragNotesWorks CitedIndex