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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Humphrey, Caroline

Titel

The Unmaking of Soviet Life : Everyday Economies after Socialism

Ist Teil von

• Culture and Society after Socialism

Ort / Verlag

Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

[2018]

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• Cover

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• 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 of post-Soviet culture. The Unmaking of Soviet Life brings together ten of Humphrey's best essays, which cover, geographically, Central Russia, Siberia, and Mongolia; and thematically, the politics of locality, property, and persons.Bridging the strongest of Humphrey's work from 1991 to 2001, the essays do a great deal to demystify the sensational topics of mafia, barter, bribery, and the new shamanism by locating them in the lived experiences of a wide range of subjects. The Unmaking of Soviet Life includes a foreword and introductory paragraphs by Bruce Grant and Nancy Ries that precede each essay