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Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 2008-09-26 05:27
Cultural Anthroplogy has published several essays that address both the subject of socialism and the ethnographic processes of change and adaptation associated with postsocialism. As the year 1989 represents the juncture wherein socialism moved from the state of actually existing to existing in the past sense, this list goes roughly back to that date.
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The Caucasus

Submitted by Hulya Sakarya on Sun, 2008-04-06 14:55

Cultural Anthropology's contribution to studies of the Caucasus represent the emergent nature of understandings with regard to this region. Situated betwixt larger sovereign regions and entities—Russia in the North, Turkey in the South and West, and the greater Near East to the Southeast—the Caucasus has been the subject of imaginary tales, speculation, and shifting alliances. It is in fact a diverse area, split by various peoples, issues, and interests.

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MANNING, 2007

Submitted by Cultural Anthro... on Mon, 2007-08-06 04:21

Rose-Colored Glasses? Color Revolutions and Cartoon Chaos in Postsocialist Georgia
Paul Manning

Link to relevant CA lists: Socialism, Europe, The Caucasus, Media Studies

EDITORS' OVERVIEW
In the latest issue of Cultural Anthropology (May 2007), Paul Manning revisits student protests in the Democratic Republic of Georgia to explore how shifts in state formations, particularly in postsocialist contexts, are tied to shifts in representational formations. His essay is titled "Rose Colored Glasses? Color Revolutions and Cartoon Chaos in Postsocialist Georgia."

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