Katherine Verdery (1) (1948–)

Author of The Political Lives of Dead Bodies

For other authors named Katherine Verdery, see the disambiguation page.

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About the Author

Katherine Verdery is Julien J. Studley Faculty Scholar and Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and the author of numerous books, including The Vanishing Hectare; Property and Value in Postsocialist Transylvania and Secrets and Truths; show more Ethnography in the Archive of Romania's Secret Police. show less

Works by Katherine Verdery

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The Political Lives of Dead Bodies (1999) 44 copies

What Was Socialism, and What Comes Next? (1996) 34 copies

My Life as a Spy: Investigations in a Secret Police File (2018) 22 copies

The Vanishing Hectare: Property and Value in Postsocialist Transylvania (Culture and Society After Socialism) (2003) 19 copies

National Ideology Under Socialism: Identity and Cultural Politics in Ceausescu's Romania (Society and Culture in… (1991) 15 copies

Secrets and Truths (Natalie Zemon Davies Annual Lecture Series) (2014) 10 copies

Peasants under Siege: The Collectivization of Romanian Agriculture, 1949-1962 (2011) 8 copies

Transylvanian Villagers: Three Centuries of Political, Economic, and Ethnic Change (1983) 7 copies

Uncertain Transition: Ethnographies of Change in the Postsocialist World (1999) — Editor — 7 copies

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The Anthropology of Politics: A Reader in Ethnography, Theory, and Critique (2002) — Contributor — 33 copies

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