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The unmaking of Soviet life : everyday economies after socialism /
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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
2002.
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| Series: | Culture and society after socialism.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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.