Markets and Moralities

Ethnographies of Postsocialism
Herausgeber: Humphrey, Caroline; Mandel, Ruth

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Before the collapse of the Eastern Bloc, private marketeering was regarded not only as criminal, but even immoral by socialist regimes.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 217mm x 144mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 326g
• ISBN-13: 9781859735770
• ISBN-10: 1859735770
• Artikelnr.: 22017374

Autorenporträt

Ruth Mandel Lecturer in Anthropology,University College London Caroline Humphrey Professor of Asian Anthropology, University of Cambridge

Inhaltsangabe

1 The Market in Everyday Life: Ethnographies of Postsocialism Part I
Trading Cultures, Market Ambiguity, and Historical Transformation 2 Women
and the Culture of Entrepreneurship in Soviet and Post-Soviet Azerbaijan 3
The Shame and Pride of Market Activity: Morality, Identity and Trading in
Postsocialist Rural Bulgaria 4 Heritage and Enterprise Culture in
Archangel, Northern Russia 5 Dealing with Money: Zotys, Dollars and Other
Currencies in the Polish Highlands Part II Consumption and Modernities 6
Chasing Moths: Cleanliness, Intimacy and Progress in Romania, 7
Re-constructing the 'Normal': Identity and the Consumption of Western Goods
in Estonia 8 Manufacturing the New Consumerism: Fast-Food Restaurants in
Postsocialist Hungary Part III Rural and Institutional Transformations 9
Coping with the Market in Rural Ukraine 10 Mongolia in the 'Age of the
Market': Pastoral Land-use and the Development Discourse 11 Broadening the
Concept of Privatization: Gender and Development in Rural Kazakhstan