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Appendix 1
The following article was published in 2007 in The Anthropology of East Europe Review:
Central Europe, Eastern Europe and Eurasia, volume 25, number 2. I composed this
article while I was still in the field. Writing about my experiences and the research
strategies I had developed helped me to reflect critically and to improve my methodology.
Moreover, the article grew from the various conversations I had with anthropologists and
other academics regarding the conceptual and practical significance of Minority Equality
Research In Action (MERIA) to my overall project, and more generally, of the
significance of operating small, focused not-for-profit organizations to complex
ethnographic projects. I felt that these exchanges were very productive, potentially
relevant to the growing literature on para-ethnography (Holmes & Marcus 2005a;
Holmes & Marcus 2005b), and likely of interest to other researchers. Besides the
following article, these conversations also inspired a panel which I organized for the 2009
meeting of the Modern Greek Studies Association on NGOs, Civil Society, and social
change in Greece.