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| Genre/Form: | Case studies |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Markets and moralities. Oxford, UK ; New York : Berg, 2002 (OCoLC)651973871 |
| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Ruth Ellen Mandel; Caroline Humphrey |
| ISBN: | 185973572X 9781859735725 1859735770 9781859735770 |
| OCLC Number: | 49249571 |
| Notes: | Originally presented at workshops held at University College London. |
| Description: | xiii, 240 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | The market in everyday life : ethnographies of postsocialism / Caroline Humphrey and Ruth Mandel -- Women and the culture of entrepreneurship in Soviet and post-Soviet Azerbaijan / Farideh Heyat -- The shame and pride of market activity : morality, identity and trading in postsocialist rural Bulgaria / Deema Kaneff -- Heritage and enterprise culture in Archangel, northern Russia / Julian Watts -- Dealing with money : zlotys, dollars and other currencies in the Polish highlands / Frances Pine -- Chasing moths : cleanliness, intimacy and progress in Romania / Adam Drazin -- Re-constructing the "normal" : identity and the consumption of western goods in Estonia / Sigrid Rausing -- Manufacturing the new consumerism : fast-food restaurants in postsocialist Hungary / André P. Czeglédy -- Coping with the market in rural Ukraine / Louise Perrotta -- Mongolia in the "age of the market" : pastoral land-use and the development discourse / David Sneath -- Broadening the concept of privatization : gender and development in rural Kazakhstan / Rosamund Shreeves. |
| Other Titles: | Markets & moralities |
| Responsibility: | edited by Ruth Mandel and Caroline Humphrey. |
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'This book provides an important contribution to post-socialist studies by locating 'the market' firmly in the socially constituted practices of post-socialist societies ... What we have is a series of 'tasters' of what are clearly individual, extensive and fascinating ethnographic studies.'Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies'The introductory chapter by the editors is exquisite... this is one of the first anthropological collections focused on the former Soviet bloc organized around a single issue; as such it signals the increasing sophistication and precision of the anthropology of the area.'Ethnos 'The papers are uniformly excellent and accessible, making the book a useful addition to any undergraduate or graduate syllabus about development and social change - whether in the former socialist world or elsewhere - as well as to specialists'The Journal of th Royal Anthropological Institute (Vol. 11, No. 1, March 2005) Read more...
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