Al Ve
Al Ver
Azeri Women
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Collective Farm
Commercial Message
consumer culture studies
deeply engrained moralities
economic anthropology
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ethnographic analysis of Eastern Europe
Fast Food Industry
Fast Food Restaurants
Foreign Fast Food
Foreign Packaging
FSU Republic
gendered entrepreneurship
Grand Bazaar
Grape Vines
Household Plot Production
Household Plots
Independent Women
land privatisation
Late Socialist Period
North East Romania
Pastoral Land Management
Periodic Physical Activity
post-Soviet transformation
postsocialism
Private Peasant Farms
rural livelihoods
shock therapy
socialist regimes
Tsar Alexander Iii
USAID Study
Veliko Turnovo
Women's Entrepreneurial Activities
Women’s Entrepreneurial Activities
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9781859735770
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 01 Jun 2002
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Before the collapse of the Eastern Bloc, private marketeering was regarded not only as criminal, but even immoral by socialist regimes. Ten years after taking on board western market-orientated shock therapy, post-socialist societies are still struggling to come to terms with the clash between these deeply engrained moralities and the daily pressures to sell and consume. This book explores the new market and its resulting contradictions in a rapidly developing Eastern Europe and Russia. Will Western fast-food industries irrevocably alter local culinary practices? What effect has the privatization of land had upon ownership and exchange? What role do new commodities play within the household? Based on original, first-hand ethnography, this book is a long-awaited addition to existing literature on post-socialist societies. It will be essential reading for students of anthropology, sociology, European and cultural studies, as well as professional groups working in Eastern Europe and Russia, including NGOs, development organizations and businesses.
Ruth Mandel Lecturer in Anthropology,University College London Caroline Humphrey Professor of Asian Anthropology, University of Cambridge
