Annual Bulletin of the Workshop for Anthropology and Communication, vol. 1. (book reviews)

In Anglo-Saxon anthropology, studies of 'our own' societies still have, in some quarters, dubious academic respectability. But over in Eastern Europe, as in southern Europe, there is a long tradition of turning the ethnographic gaze close to home. Of course that tradition has largely been one of folklore and ethnology in a rather limited sense.

The annual publication under review here (which publishes articles in English or French) is, however, part of a new direction in East European ethnography, one that takes its maps and compasses from classical, social and cultural anthropology ...

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