Seeing Like a Mayor: Or, How Local Officials Obstructed Romanian Land Restitution

Ethnography

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 5-33

  Verdery, Katherine ^a  

^a Department of Anthropology ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Eastern Europe; land; postsocialism; property; restitution; Romania; socialism; state

Indexed keywords

EID: 84996220388     PISSN: 14661381     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/14661380222231054     Document Type: Article

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