Clifford, James (1998): The Predicament of Culture. Twentieth-Century Ethnography, Literature, and Art. Cambridge (Massachusetts), Harvard Univ. Press, pp. 2-17. (pdf, 2 MB)
Comaroff, John (1996): Ethnicity, Nationalism and the Politics of Difference in an Age of Revolution. In: MacAllister & Wilmsen (eds.): The Politics of Difference: Ethnic Premises in a World of Power. University of Chicago Press, pp. 162-183. (pdf, 2,9 MB)
Hall, Stuart (1991): Old and New Identities, Old and New Ethnicities. In: King, Anthony D. (ed.), Culture, Globalization and the World System. London, Sage, pp. 41-68. (pdf, 3,5 MB)
Verdery, Katharine (1996): Whither 'Nation' and 'Nationalism'? In: Balakrishnan (ed.): Mapping the Nation. London, Verso, pp. 226-234. (pdf, 1,2 MB)
Kalb, Don; Marks, Hans; Tak, Herman (eds.) (1996): Historical Anthropology: The Unwaged Debate. In: Focaal. "Focaal. Tijdschrift voor Antropologie" No. 26/27, Nijmwegen, pp. 61-65. (pdf, 390 kB)
Löfgren, Orvar (1989): "The Nationalization of Culture", Ethnologia Europaea, XIX, 5-23. (pdf, 13 MB)
Sugar, Peter (1995): Eastern European Nationalism in the Twentieth Century, Washingtn D.C., American University Press. (pdf, 2,6 MB)
Readings on Soviet Union
Hirsch, Francine (1997): The Soviet Union as a Work-in-Progress: Ethnographers and the Category Nationality in the 1926, 1937, and 1939 Censuses, in: Slavic Review, Vol. 56, No. 2, pp. 251-278. (pdf, 3,3 MB)
Martin, Terry (2001): An Affirmative Action Empire: The Soviet Union as the Highest Form of Imperialism. In: R. G. Suny/T. Martin: A State of Nations, Oxford University Press. pp. 67-90. (pdf, 2,4 MB)
Slezkine, Yuri (1994): The USSR as a Communal Apartment, Or How a Socialist State Promoted Ethnic Particularism, in: Slavic Review 53, No. 2, pp. 414-452. (pdf, 4,6 MB)
Readings on Yugoslavia
Patter son, Patrick Hyder (2003): An Everyday for Everyman (and Everywoman, Too): Consumer Culture, the New "New Class" and the Making of the Yugoslav Dream, 1950-1965. Presented at the conference "Everyday Socialism: States and Social Transformation in Eastern Europe 1945-1965", The Open University Conference Centre, London. (pdf, 2,6 MB)
Zukin, Sharon (1975): Beyond Marx and Tito: Theory and Practice in Yugslav Socialism. Cambridge University Press, New York, pp. 116-152. (pdf, 2,9 MB)
Research Methods
Akeroyd, Anne (1984): Ethics in Relation to Informants, the Profession and Governments. In: Ellen (ed.): Ethnographic Research: A Guide to General Conduct. Academic Press, London , pp. 133-154. (pdf, 2,4 MB)
Ellen, R. F. (1984): Reaching and Recording Data. In: Ellen (ed.): Ethnographic Research: A Guide to General Conduct. Academic Press, London , pp. 36-45. (pdf, 1 MB)
Ferguson, James and Gupta, Akhil (1997): Discipline and Practice: ‘The Field’ as Site, Method, and Location in Anthropology. In: Akhil Gupta and James Ferguson (eds.) Anthropological Locations: Boundaries and Grounds of a Field Science. Berkeley, University of California Press, pp. 1-29. (pdf, 2,5 MB)
Wolcott, Harry F. (1995): The Art of Fieldwork. Walnut Creek, Altamira Press, pp. 86-121. (pdf, 3,9 MB)