One hundred years of habitude: Reflections on Michael Lambek’s Behind the glass
One hundred years of habitude: Reflections on Michael Lambek’s Behind the glass Go to Source
What’s in a family?
What’s in a family? Go to Source
Writing family: Diaspora and self-representation in autoethnography
Writing family: Diaspora and self-representation in autoethnography Go to Source
Less is more/Less and more
Less is more/Less and more Go to Source
Beneath a modernist roof: A critical autoethnography
Beneath a modernist roof: A critical autoethnography Go to Source
On critical African postsocialisms
On critical African postsocialisms Relative to Eastern Europe, Asia, and Latin America, scant attention has been paid to the fate of formerly socialist states in Africa. One reason is that…
What was fascism?
What was fascism? In her influential monographs and essays, Katherine Verdery transformed understandings of state socialism and the command economy at its heart. I reflect here on how scholars might…
On fuzziness
On fuzziness This article is a consideration of the conceptual power of Verdery’s concept of “fuzzy property.” “Fuzzy property” has helped me understand the phenomenon of lupiaje in Guanajuato, Mexico—where…
Suspicion, empathy, and the archival imagination
Suspicion, empathy, and the archival imagination This article celebrates Katherine Verdery’s impact on the discipline of cultural anthropology through an exploration of the intersection of suspicion, empathy, and the archival…
Spying and doing fieldwork in the East
Spying and doing fieldwork in the East This article reflects on the anthropological scholarship of Katherine Verdery, especially her last book, My life as a spy, to explore the conditions…
The staying power of Katherine Verdery’s insights on gender ideologies in Eastern Europe
The staying power of Katherine Verdery’s insights on gender ideologies in Eastern Europe The article examines the impact of Katherine Verdery’s work on gender under socialism as exemplified by her…
Time and space in the work of Katherine Verdery
Time and space in the work of Katherine Verdery Katherine Verdery is often thought of as a theorist of time and temporality. In “The ‘etatization’ of time in Ceauşescu’s Romania,”…
Katherine Verdery: Brushing aside the ideological curtain
Katherine Verdery: Brushing aside the ideological curtain This contribution highlights one of Katherine Verdery’s strengths as an anthropologist: her ability to recognize and penetrate foundational ideological formations to analyze the…
The vanishing villager: Three decades of political, economic and ethnic change in Bulgaria
The vanishing villager: Three decades of political, economic and ethnic change in Bulgaria One measure of a scholar’s work is how long it continues to be relevant and useful. This…
Flows
Flows The socialist systems relied on particular flows of information, goods, and connections that not only enabled them to function, at least for a few decades, but also became intrinsic…
The affective economy of democracy: Women’s adverse incorporation in party politics in Dehradun, North India
The affective economy of democracy: Women’s adverse incorporation in party politics in Dehradun, North India Party politics is an affective economy in which the generation and accumulation of positive sentiments…
Urban anthropology or anthropology in the city Does Lefebvre hold the key to escape this cul-de-sac?
Urban anthropology or anthropology in the city Does Lefebvre hold the key to escape this cul-de-sac? Urban anthropology is a discipline that emerged only with great difficulty. Its origin in…
Katherine Verdery at Hopkins 1977–1997
Katherine Verdery at Hopkins 1977–1997 The article describes Katherine Verdery’s intellectual contributions and interactions with her colleagues at the Department of Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University from 1977–1997. Go to Source
An appreciation of Katherine Verdery’s My life as a spy: Investigations in a secret police file
An appreciation of Katherine Verdery’s My life as a spy: Investigations in a secret police file As a foreign anthropologist in Romania in the 1970s and ’80s, Katherine Verdery was…
Triangulation: An imperial power device
Triangulation: An imperial power device Drawing on Katherine Verdery’s Transylvanian villagers and fieldwork in Latvia, this article discusses triangulation as an imperial power device whereby one actor makes an alliance…