As Katherine Verdery observes, "There's nothing like reading your secret police file to make you wonder who you really are." In 1973 Verdery began her doctoral fieldwork in the Transylvanian region of Romania, ruled at the time by communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu. She returned several times over the next twenty-five years, during which time the secret police—the Securitate—compiled a massive surveillance file on her. Reading through its 2,781 pages, she learned that she was "actually" a spy, a CIA agent, a Hungarian agitator, and a friend of dissidents: in short, an enemy of Romania. In My Life as a Spy she analyzes her file alongside her original field notes and conversations with Securitate officers. Verdery also talks with some of the informers who were close friends, learning the complex circumstances that led them to report on her, and considers how fieldwork and spying can be easily confused. Part memoir, part detective story, part anthropological analysis, My Life as a Spy offers a personal account of how government surveillance worked during the Cold War and how Verdery experienced living under it.
發表於2024-11-23
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圖書標籤: 人類學 羅馬尼亞 秘密警察 曆史 英文 社會史 社會主義 監控
研究未來學校faculty主頁時意外所獲。題材極佳:一個大半輩子研究羅馬尼亞的人類學傢,偶然發現自己當年的秘密警察檔案,被迫重新審視田野中建立起來的友誼、早年研究成果,重構整個田野記憶和個人身份認知,辨析人類學傢和秘密警察工作方式的異同,以緻於産生對社會主義國傢秘密警察製度與社會關係交織共生的全新認識。人類學傢安身立命的田野調查方法,本就脆弱地倚靠著與對話者的特殊關係中微妙的信任和善意,在秘密警察肆意操縱社會關係、播撒猜疑和恐懼的社會主義羅馬尼亞,更是呈現為根基顛覆的最狼狽形象。但跟著作者經曆自我分裂,看她在約見退休秘密警察前後從忐忑到左右互搏,再到最後在對社會主義羅馬尼亞的重新啓濛中彌閤早年與現在、自我與他者,我卻反而無比嚮往田野,嚮往生活與求知相互緊抱著下墜或上升的冒險
評分掃讀,the secret police and being a “spy” in communist Romania 。看到作者說類似“I had been hearing scary stories about communists all my life, and here I was suddenly surrounded by them. It took getting used to.”的話,心裏的鐵幕就砸瞭下來。說不清什麼感覺,畢竟I am surrounded by communists all my life
評分掃讀,the secret police and being a “spy” in communist Romania 。看到作者說類似“I had been hearing scary stories about communists all my life, and here I was suddenly surrounded by them. It took getting used to.”的話,心裏的鐵幕就砸瞭下來。說不清什麼感覺,畢竟I am surrounded by communists all my life
評分掃讀,the secret police and being a “spy” in communist Romania 。看到作者說類似“I had been hearing scary stories about communists all my life, and here I was suddenly surrounded by them. It took getting used to.”的話,心裏的鐵幕就砸瞭下來。說不清什麼感覺,畢竟I am surrounded by communists all my life
評分研究未來學校faculty主頁時意外所獲。題材極佳:一個大半輩子研究羅馬尼亞的人類學傢,偶然發現自己當年的秘密警察檔案,被迫重新審視田野中建立起來的友誼、早年研究成果,重構整個田野記憶和個人身份認知,辨析人類學傢和秘密警察工作方式的異同,以緻於産生對社會主義國傢秘密警察製度與社會關係交織共生的全新認識。人類學傢安身立命的田野調查方法,本就脆弱地倚靠著與對話者的特殊關係中微妙的信任和善意,在秘密警察肆意操縱社會關係、播撒猜疑和恐懼的社會主義羅馬尼亞,更是呈現為根基顛覆的最狼狽形象。但跟著作者經曆自我分裂,看她在約見退休秘密警察前後從忐忑到左右互搏,再到最後在對社會主義羅馬尼亞的重新啓濛中彌閤早年與現在、自我與他者,我卻反而無比嚮往田野,嚮往生活與求知相互緊抱著下墜或上升的冒險
My Life as a Spy 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載