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The Kroeber Anthropological Society Papers, Number 86
C 2001 Kroeber Anthropological Society:

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Ivan Arenas          John Ertl
Angela Jenks

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Ivan Arenas          Angela Jenks
Linda Coco           Saul Mercado

John Ertl            Peter Rawitscher

Liza Grandia         Fouzieyha Towghi

Special thanks to Sabrina Soracco for editorial advising

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Kroeber Anthropological Society Papers
No. 86, Fall 2001

The Paradoxes of Progress: Globalization and
Postsocialist Cultures

Guest Editors: Rachael Stryker and Jennifer Patico

Contents:

The Paradoxes of Progress: Globalization and Postsocialist Cultures

Rachael Stryker and Jennifer Patico ............................................................... 1...
Public Memory in Russia: How Transnational is it?

Andreas Langenohl ..................................................................  9
From State-Directed Non-Development and Organized Gender Violence to Transition in
Vojvodina and Serbia

Tatjana Djuric-Kuzmanovic ........................... ....................................... 27
Local Politics, Personal Emotions: Support for Civic Action in Slovenia

Veronica Aplenc ..................................................................  37
Cultural Liminality and Hybridity: The Romanian 'Transition"

Monica Popescu .................................................................. 47
Social Movements, Transnational Actors, and Democratization: The Case of the Russian
Environmental Movement

Laura Henry .................................................................. 69
Breaking the Waves: Voodoo Magic in the Russian Cultural Ecumene

Galina Lindquist ..................................................................  93
From Ska Problem to "Don Uorri": Transidiomatic Practices in Albania

Marco Jacquemet .................................................................. 113
Globalization in the Postsocialist Marketplace: Consumer Readings of Difference and
Development in Urban Russia

Jennifer Patico .................................................................. 127
When Local Myths Meet Global Reality: Preparing Russia's Abandoned Children for
International Adoption

Olga Tunina and Rachael Stryker ..................................................................   143

A New Generation of Bulgarian Transition: In Search of a "Brighter Future"

Maria Stoilkova ........................................................ 151
Swedish Space, "Western Magic," and Baltic Ambitions: The Making of a Business Elite in
Riga, Latvia

Anja Timm ........................................................             165

"Civilization" and its Insecurities: Traveling Scientists, Global Science, and National Progress
in the Novosibirsk Akademgorodok

Amy Ninetto ........................................................ 181