Disrupted Landscapes. State, Peasants and the Politics of Land in Postsocialist Romania, by Ștefan Dorondel. Berghahn, New York, Oxford, 2016, 252 p.
Journal Title: Martor. The Museum of the Romanian Peasant Anthropology Review - Year 2016, Vol 21, Issue 21
Abstract
The reviewed volume, the result of a social anthropological research, is largely based on the PhD thesis in agricultural economics which Ştefan Dorondel defended at Humboldt University of Berlin. It examines the circumstances of the return of land property as it occurred in Romania’s rural society, focusing on the case study of two villages in Argeș county.
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