Please prepare a short (5 minute) presentation on ONE of the themes indicated below:

Theme 1.
He is an experienced, successful and independent (male) black market dealer in Leningrad. In 1988, he marries a Danish girl and emigrates to Denmark. He masters the language quickly and fluently, and soon starts to realize his old dream - of trying to make it as a businesman in the West.

• What sort of unexpected problems might this man encounter?
• What would you advise him to do?

Theme 2.
Early on in this lecture series, when we were discussing power, I pointed out that what I called "the Verdery paradigm" (as formulated in Verdery 1991) was a possible candidate for a "gate-keeping concept" (Appadurai) that might define "post-communist anthropology" as a "regional tradition in ethnographic writing" (Fardon). But since then, we have discussed quite a few other - different - approaches to and aspects of East / Central European society.

• How do the "Verdery paradigm's" prospects now look, do you think (after we have been through all this other literature)?
• Is it (or is it becoming) a "gate-keeping concept"?
• Is it being contested?
• What role do you think it should play in the anthropology of East / Central Europe?

Theme 3.
Compare the articles by Yampolsky and Lemon.

• How do the analytical orientations of these two authors differ?
• How are they similar?
• How do the two views "fit" together (contradiction, complementarity, symmetry etc.)?
• Is it possible to combine the two views - and what might we learn from such a combination?