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Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Communities in the East European Transition -- PART ONE Challenges of Privatization and the Market -- 2 Labyrinths of Freedom: An Agricultural Community in Post-Socialist Hungary -- 3 An Old Song in a New Voice: Decollectivization in Bulgaria -- 4 Two Incidents on the Plains in Southern Transylvania: Pitfalls of Privatization in a Romanian Community -- 5 Agricultural Transformation and Social Change in an East German County -- 6 A Polish Village in the Process of Transformation Towards a Market Economy -- PART TWO Society Up For Grabs -- 7 Ferenc Erdei and Antal Vermes: The Struggle for Balance in Rural Hungary -- 8 Changing Conflicts and Their Resolution in Polish Communities Today -- 9 Uneasy Accommodation: Ethnicity and Politics in Rural Bulgaria -- 10 All Is Possible, Nothing Is Certain: The Horizons of Transition in a Romanian Village -- 11 From Decollectivization to Poverty and Beyond: Women in Rural East Germany Before and After Unification -- 12 Roma of Shuto Orizari, Macedonia: Class, Politics, and Community -- 13 Social Change as Reflected in the Lives of Bulgarian Villagers -- 14 A Rural Business Class in Transition: Observations from a Polish Region -- About the Editor and Contributors.

Getting by in postsocialism : labor, bodies, voices -- How workers became "others" : talking alienation -- Postsocialist labor pains : fear, distance, and narrative in the workplace -- The postsocialist body politic -- Houses of stone or of straw? : postsocialist worker communities -- Strangers in their own skin : workers and gender in postsocialism -- The embodied enemy : stress, health, and agency -- What is to be done?

Abstract
This essay considers how transportation and mobility model the character of Romanian-American interaction during fieldwork from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s. Transportation in socialist Romania was a register of modernization and regime legitimation as well as an absolute threat to that legitimation. Official suspicions of movement and political concern about transportation translated into differentially restricting, policing, and limiting availability of transportation. In contrast anthropological fieldwork is predicated on movement while Western culture also claimed free mobility as a cultural good. These different teleologies provoked diverse disjunctures in my interactions with Romanians. While I engaged with Romanians naively, my travelling together with people either gave them cover for resistance or provoked their fear of political exposure. Sharing transportation resources with Romanians encouraged others' concerns about my alleged political bias or was used to affirm socialist superiority. In other words, transportation during socialism was never neutral, but freighted politically and culturally confrontational.