An appreciation of Katherine Verdery’s <i>My life as a spy: Investigations in a secret police file</i>
As a foreign anthropologist in Romania in the 1970s and ’80s, Katherine Verdery was under observation by the secret police. Later, having obtained her files, she put the secret police under her own ethnographic observation. Her analyses are examined in this article.
Authors
- Sheila Fitzpatrick
Institutions
- Australian Catholic University (AU)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Hau Journal of Ethnographic Theory
- Published
- 2024-09-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1086/731258
- Primary Topic
- Crime and Detective Fiction Studies
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00