Format:
XII, 345 S
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24 cm
Edition:
1. publ.
ISBN:
0415262577
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0415262585
Content:
Introduction: postsocialism as a topic of anthropological investigation / Chris Hann, Caroline Humphrey, Katherine Verdery -- Farewell to the socialist 'other' / Chris Hann -- Does the category 'postsocialist' still make sense? / Caroline Humphrey -- Whither postsocialism? / Katherine Verdery -- The advantages of being collectivized: cooperative farm managers in the postsocialist economy / Martha Lampland -- Economic crisis and ritual decline in Eastern Europe / Gerald W. Creed -- The social production of mistrust / Christian Giordano, Dobrinka Kostova -- Retreat to the household? Gendered domains in postsocialist Poland / Frances Pine -- The unmaking of an east-central European working class / David A. Kideckel -- Deprivation, the Roma and 'the underclass' / Michael Stewart -- Intolerant sovereignties and 'multi-multi' protectorates: competition over religious sites and (in)tolerance in the Balkans / Robert M. Hayden -- Withdrawing from the land: social and spiritual crisis in the indigenous Russian arctic / Piers Vitebsky -- Remnants of revolution in China / Stephan Feuchtwang -- Rethinking Chinese consumption: social palliatives and the rhetorics of transition in postsocialist China / Kevin Latham -- How far do analyses of postsocialism travel? The case of central Asia / Deniz Kandiyoti -- 'Eurasia', ideology and the political imagination in provincial Russia / Caroline Humphrey -- Seeding civil society / Ruth Mandel -- Beyond transition: rethinking elite configurations in the Balkans / Steven Sampson -- Afterword: globalism and postsocialist prospects / Don Kalb
Note:
This book derives from a conference titled "Actually-existing Postsocialisms", held in Halle in November 2000
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Introduction: postsocialism as a topic of anthropological investigation
,
Farewell to the socialist 'other'
,
Does the category 'postsocialist' still make sense?
,
Whither postsocialism?
,
The advantages of being collectivized: cooperative farm managers in the postsocialist economy
,
Economic crisis and ritual decline in Eastern Europe
,
The social production of mistrust
,
Retreat to the household? Gendered domains in postsocialist Poland
,
The unmaking of an east-central European working class
,
Deprivation, the Roma and 'the underclass'
,
Intolerant sovereignties and 'multi-multi' protectorates: competition over religious sites and (in)tolerance in the Balkans
,
Withdrawing from the land: social and spiritual crisis in the indigenous Russian arctic
,
Remnants of revolution in China
,
Rethinking Chinese consumption: social palliatives and the rhetorics of transition in postsocialist China
,
How far do analyses of postsocialism travel? The case of central Asia
,
'Eurasia', ideology and the political imagination in provincial Russia
,
Seeding civil society
,
Beyond transition: rethinking elite configurations in the Balkans
,
Afterword: globalism and postsocialist prospects
Language:
English
Subjects:
Political Science
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Law
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Ethnology
Keywords:
Osteuropa
;
Asien
;
Sozialer Prozess
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Verhaltensmuster
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Staatssozialismus
;
Systemtransformation
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Feldforschung
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Konferenzschrift
;
Aufsatzsammlung
Author information:
Hann, Chris 1953-
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