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ANTHROPOLOGY AND NOSTALGIA. Edited by Olivia Angé and David Berliner, 248 pages, 12 illus., bibliog., index http://www.berghahnbooks.com/title.php?rowtag=AngeAnthropology After being a researcher at the University of Oxford, Olivia Angé is now a postdoctoral fellow at the Quai Branly Museum. Her fieldwork in the Andes mainly focuses on barter, ritual and cultural transmission. David Berliner is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Université Libre de Bruxelles, and the coeditor of Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale. He has conducted ethnographic fieldwork in Guinea-Conakry and Laos. His topics of research are social memory, cultural transmission and the politics of heritage. Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction: Anthropology of Nostalgia—Anthropology as Nostalgia Olivia Angé and David Berliner Chapter 1. Are Anthropologists Nostalgist? David Berliner Chapter 2. Missing Socialism Again? The Malaise of Nostalgia in Post-Soviet Lithuania Gediminas Lankauskas Chapter 3. The Politics of Nostalgia in the Aftermath of Socialism’s Collapse: A Case for Comparative Analysis Maya Nadkarni and Olga Shevchenko Chapter 4. Why Postimperial Trumps Postsocialist: Crying back the National Past in Hungary Chris Hann Chapter 5. Consuming Communism: Material Cultures of Nostalgia in Former East Germany Jonathan Bach Chapter 6. The Key from (to) Sepharad: Nostalgia for a Lost Country Joseph Josy Lévy and Inaki Olazabal Chapter 7. Nostalgia and the Discovery of Loss: Essentializing the Turkish Cypriot Past Rebecca Bryant Chapter 8. Social and Economic Performativity of Nostalgic Narratives in Andean Barter Fairs Olivia Angé Chapter 9. Wither Left-Wing Nostalgia Petra Rethmann Afterword: On Anthropology’s Nostalgia: Looking Back/Seeing Ahead William Cunningham Bissell Notes on Contributors Index