Lost in Transition: Ethnographies of Everyday Life after Communism Book

Contents

PREFACE ECHOES OFF THE IRON CURTAIN....................xvii
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS....................1
INTRODUCTION THE ROAD TO BULGARIA, 1983–1990....................21
CHAPTER 1 CONTRABAND, 1990....................37
CHAPTER 2 KALOYAN AND HRISTO, 1998....................47
CHAPTER 3 HER LOVER IN CUBA, 1999....................61
CHAPTER 4 HAIR Ethnographic Fiction....................83
CHAPTER 5 SHOPAHOLIC IN EASTERN EUROPE, 1998–2006....................93
CHAPTER 6 NEW CARPETS FOR OLD KILIMS, 1999....................101
CHAPTER 7 COMRADES, 2000....................107
CHAPTER 8 PETAR HAILS A CAB Ethnographic Fiction....................117
CHAPTER 9 BASSET HOUNDS IN THE BALKANS, 2005....................123
CHAPTER 10 THE MASTER OF CONSPIRACIES, 2005....................131
CHAPTER 11 AN EXPLOSION IN SOFIA, 2008....................143
CHAPTER 12 COFFEE Ethnographic Fiction....................151
CHAPTER 13 KALOYAN IN MAINE, 2009....................155
CHAPTER 14 TITO TRIVIA Ethnographic Fiction....................161
CHAPTER 15 PILGRIMS FROM SOFIA TO ZAGREB, 2009....................177
AFTERWORD LOST IN TRANSITION, 2010....................195
APPENDIX TIMELINE OF TWENTIETH-CENTURY COMMUNISM....................201