Waiting for Macedonia - Identity in a Changing World

"Thiessen crafts a fine ethnography of a changing society after the fall of socialism and independent nationhood." - Anastasia Karakasidou, Wellesley College

List of contents

List of Tables and Figures

Acknowledgements 

Introduction 

Chapter 1: Macedonian Context

Chapter 2: Mapping Urban Identity

Chapter 3: The Disintegration of Yugoslavia: Gender—Experienced by Three Generations

Chapter 4: Getting Along

Chapter 5: Shopping for the "New" Person

Chapter 6: Silhouette: The Sculpted Body 

Chapter 7: Conclusion     

Bibliography and Recommended Reading

Index

 

About the author

By Ilka Thiessen

Summary

"Thiessen crafts a fine ethnography of a changing society after the fall of socialism and independent nationhood." - Anastasia Karakasidou, Wellesley College

Product details

• Authors: Llka Thiessen
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.10.2006
• EAN: 9781551117195
• ISBN: 978-1-55111-719-5
• No. of pages: 208
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 226 mm x 10 mm
• Weight: 295 g
• Series: Teaching Culture: UTP Ethnographies for the Classroom; Teaching Culture: UTP Ethnographies for the Classroom; Teaching Culture: UTP Ethnogra; Broadview Ethnographies & Case
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Society; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories