On the Road to Normal: Negotiating Agency and State Sovereignty in Postsocialist Serbia

American Anthropologist

Volumn 113, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 88-100

  Greenberg, Jessica ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agency; Normal; Postsocialism; Serbia; Sovereignty

Indexed keywords

EID: 79951518535     PISSN: 00027294     EISSN: 15481433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1433.2010.01308.x     Document Type: Article

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