The Unmaking of Soviet Life : : Everyday Economies after Socialism / / Caroline Humphrey.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Humphrey, Caroline,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]; ©2002
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Culture and Society after Socialism
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (288 p.) :; 1 map, 15 halftones

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- Foreword: The Shifting Fields of Culture and Society after Socialism -- NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION -- ABBREVIATIONS AND TERMS -- INTRODUCTION -- PART I: LOCALITY IN AN UNSTABLE STATE -- INTRODUCTION TO PART I -- CHAPTER 1. "ICEBERGS," BARTER, AND THE MAFIA IN PROVINCIAL RUSSIA -- CHAPTER 2. MYTH MAKING, NARRATIVES, AND THE DISPOSSESSED IN RUSSIA -- CHAPTER 3. CREATING A CULTURE OF DISILLUSIONMENT CONSUMPTION MOSCOW, A CHRONICLE OF CHANGING TIMES -- PART II: STRATEGIES BEYOND THE LAW -- INTRODUCTION TO PART II -- CHAPTER 4. TRADERS, "DISORDER," AND CITIZENSHIP REGIMES IN PROVINCIAL RUSSIA -- CHAPTER 5. RUSSIAN PROTECTION RACKETS AND THE APPROPRIATION OF LAW AND ORDER -- CHAPTER 6. RETHINKING BRIBERY IN CONTEMPORARY RUSSIA -- PART III: RETHINKING PERSONHOOD -- INTRODUCTION TO PART III -- CHAPTER 7. AVGAI KHAD THEFT AND SOCIAL TRUST IN POSTCOMMUNIST MONGOLIA -- CHAPTER 8. THE DOMESTIC MODE OF PRODUCTION IN POST-SOVIET SIBERIA? -- CHAPTER 9. THE VILLAS OF THE "NEW RUSSIANS": A SKETCH OF CONSUMPTION AND CULTURAL IDENTITY IN POST-SOVIET LANDSCAPES -- CHAPTER 10. SHAMANS IN THE CITY -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX