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1 I would like to thank Justin I’Anson-Sparks for his helpful comments.

2 Katherine Verdery, for example, analysed the distribution of property and power in Transylvania’s decollectivisation, and David G. Anderson examined modes of land appropriation and privatisation in Arctic Siberia. Gerald Creed looked at the effects of privatisation and land restitution on the lives of Bulgarian villagers, and Deema Kaneff examined rural transformation and changing ownership patterns also in Bulgaria (Verdery 1998; Anderson 1998; Creed 1998; Kaneff 1996).

3 This is rather surprising, especially because some of them have clearly alluded to the emotional dimensions of changing ownership. Katherine Verdery, for example, hinted at the emotional involvement of Transylvanian stakeholders in cases of contested ownership. Similarly, David G. Anderson (1998: 65), who defined property as "a way of knowing”, referred to the emotional reactions of his informants to changing property relations in Siberia. He did, for example, refer to the angry response of a brigadier to a newcomer family, and to the "aggressiveness” of the property claims made by the latter (Anderson 1998: 80-1).