The Unmaking of Soviet Life : Everyday Economies after Socialism /

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In order to understand today's Russia and former Soviet republics, it is vital to consider their socialist past. Caroline Humphrey, one of anthropology's most highly regarded thinkers on a number of topics including consumption, identity, and ritual, is the ideal guide to the intricacies o...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Humphrey, Caroline
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2002.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Postcommunisme.
Dagelijks leven.
Informele economie.
Wirtschaftsentwicklung
Alltag
Social conditions
Post-communism.
Economic history.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Postcommunisme > Mongolie.
Postcommunisme > Russie.
Post-communism > Mongolia.
Post-communism > Russia (Federation)
Russland
Mongolei
Russia (Federation)
Mongolia.
Russie > Conditions sociales > 1991-
Russie > Conditions economiques > 1991-
Mongolia > Social conditions.
Mongolia > Economic conditions.
Russia (Federation) > Social conditions > 1991-
Russia (Federation) > Economic conditions > 1991-
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The politics of locality in an unstable state
  • "Icebergs," barter, and the mafia in provincial Russia
  • Mythmaking, narratives, and the dispossessed in Russia
  • Creating a culture of disillusionment : consumption in Moscow, a chronicle of changing times
  • Strategies beyond the law
  • Traders, "disorder," and citizenship regimes in provincial Russia
  • Russian protection rackets and the appropriation of law and order
  • Rethinking bribery in contemporary Russia
  • Rethinking personhood
  • Avgai Khad : theft and social trust in postcommunist Mongolia
  • The domestic mode of production in Post-Soviet Siberia? The villas of the "new Russians" : a sketch of consumption and cultural identity in Post-Soviet landscapes
  • Shamans in the city.

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