Markets and moralities : ethnographies of postsocialism /

"Before the collapse of the Eastern Bloc, private marketeering was regarded not only as criminal, but even immoral by socialist regimes. Ten years after taking on board western market-orientated shock therapy, post-socialist societies are still struggling to come to terms with the clash between...

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Corporate Author: University College, London
Other Authors: Mandel, Ruth Ellen, 1955-, Humphrey, Caroline
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford, UK ; New York : Berg, 2002.
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Table of 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 / Andrʹe P. Czegl ʹedy
  • 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.