The Anthropological Field on the Margins of Europe, 1945-1991

imagination of their northern European neighbours, including anthropologists.

Yet these peoples and places have anthropological traditions

of their own, shaped initially by nationalist movements and later (more

superficially) by socialism and other political constraints. This volume

explores the anthropological field between Greece and Slovenia when

political pressures were strongest, in the era of the Cold War. However,

the environments were by no means uniformly repressive. These

studies provide indispensable insights for new generations pursuing

innovative research agendas in this region in the new century; they

also raise deeper issues about the boundaries and substance of the

anthropological endeavour.