Markets and moralities
Subtitle: ethnographies of postsocialism
By: edited by Ruth Mandel and Caroline Humphrey
Contributors: Mandel, Ruth; Humphrey, Caroline
Publisher: Berg; Berg Publishers
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Oxford, UK; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
Subjects: Free enterprise -- Europe, Eastern; Free enterprise -- Former Soviet republics; Post-communism -- Case studies; Europe, Eastern -- Economic conditions -- 1989-; Former Soviet republics -- Economic conditions
Other titles: Markets & moralities
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: The market in everyday life : ethnographies of postsocialism / Caroline Humphrey and Ruth Mandel; title: Trading cultures, market ambiguity, and historical transformation. 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; title: Consumption and modernities. 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. Czeglʹedy; title: Rural and institutional transformations. 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. 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. Czeglʹedy; title: Rural and institutional transformations. 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