Oikos and Market : : Explorations in Self-Sufficiency after Socialism / / ed. by Stephen Gudeman, Chris Hann.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• MitwirkendeR: Cash, Jennifer R.,; Gudeman, Stephen,; Hann, Chris,; Light, Nathan,; Monova, Miladina,; Tocheva, Detelina,; Vasile, Monica,; Vidacs, Bea,
• HerausgeberIn: Gudeman, Stephen,; Hann, Chris,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Max Planck Studies in Anthropology and Economy ; 2
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (204 p.)

Self-sufficiency of the house is practiced in many parts of the world but ignored in economic theory, just as socialist collectivization is assumed to have brought household self-sufficiency to an end. The ideals of self-sufficiency, however, continue to shape economic activity in a wide range of postsocialist settings. This volume’s six comparative studies of postsocialist villages in Eastern Europe and Asia illuminate the enduring importance of the house economy, which is based not on the market but on the order of the house. These formations show that economies depend not only on the macro institutions of markets and states but also on the micro institutions of families, communities, and house economies, often in an uneasy relationship.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Group Field Sites Map -- Introduction Self-Sufficiency as Reality and as Myth -- Chapter 1. Th e Ideal of Self-Sufficiency and the Reality of Dependence: A Hungarian Case -- Chapter 2. How Much is Enough? Household Provisioning, Self-Sufficiency, and Social Status in Rural Moldova -- Chapter 3. When the Household Meets the State: Ajvar Cooking and Householding in Postsocialist Macedonia -- Chapter 4. Self-Sufficiency is Not Enough: Ritual Intensification and Household Economies in a Kyrgyz Village -- Chapter 5. “They Work in a Closed Circle”: Self-Sufficiency in House-Based Rural Tourism in the Rhodope Mountains, Bulgaria -- Chapter 6. “Being One’s Own Master”: Reciprocity and Technology among Transylvanian Forest Dwellers -- Index