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 o...

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