Quickly excelling in her studies and given professional training at deferred cost, Ana (beginning in 1910 or 1911) taught first grade at a Jewish primary school and then Hebrew and Jewish studies at a community professional school. Her father, Hersh Kaufman Rabinsohn, was a ritual slaughterer (sho het) and synagogue functionary, her mother Sarah, a small-time food seller. Infused by this kind of ethnographic sensibility, the essays reject the assumption of a transition to capitalism in favor of investigating local processes in their own terms.Born Ana Rabinsohn in the Moldavian village of Codaesti on December 13, 1893, she was one of six children (two having died in infancy) of an impoverished Orthodox Jewish household in Bucharest. Land being redistributed as private property stretches and shrinks, as in the imaginings of the farmers struggling to tame it.

The classic pyramid scheme is not just a means of enrichment but a site for reconceptualizing the meaning of money and an unusual form of post-Marxist millenarianism. By analyzing her primary data from Romania and Transylvania and synthesizing information from other sources, Verdery lends a distinctive anthropological perspective to a variety of themes common to political and economic studies on the end of socialism: themes such as 'civil society', the creation of market economies, privatization, national and ethnic conflict, and changing gender relations.Under Verdery's examination, privatization and civil society appear not only as social processes, for example, but as symbols in political rhetoric. In this collection of essays dealing with the aftermath of Soviet-style socialism and the different forms that may replace it, she explores the nature of socialism in order to understand more fully its consequences. Introduction 1What Was Socialism, and Why Did It Fall? 2The 'Etatization' of Time in Ceausescu's Romania 3From Parent-State to Family Patriarchs: Gender and Nation in Contemporary Eastern Europe 4Nationalism and National Sentiment in Postsocialist Romania 5Civil Society or Nation? 'Europe' in the Symbolism of Postsocialist Politics 6The Elasticity of Land: Problems of Property Restitution in Transylvania 7Faith, Hope, and Caritas in the Land of the Pyramids, Romania, 1990-1994 8A Transition from Socialism to Feudalism? Thoughts on the Postsocialist State Afterword Notes Index.Īmong the first anthropologists to work in Eastern Europe, Katherine Verdery had built up a significant base of ethnographic and historical expertise when the major political transformations in the region began to take place.Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.

Ein Lebenslauf by Marcel Pauker