Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The politics of reputation: toward an anthropology of the personal
  • Emancipation, interregnum, and rural crisis
  • The roots of ambivalence: peasant labor migration as a threat to village security
  • In defense of peasant patriarchalism: institutional responses to peasant labor migration
  • Autocratic authority and the peasant "little community": state agents, village officials, and community opinion
  • The social control of peasant labor: the alliance of family and community
  • The sociology of class: peasant communes and market brokers
  • The logic of solidarity: migrants and villagers
  • Legacies: Otkhod and Russian popular culture
  • A culture of acquisition: the genesis of mass consumer culture in rural Russia
  • A culture of denunciation: patterns of religious anathematization in rural Russia.