What was socialism, and what comes next / Katherine Verdery.
Among the first anthropologists to work in Eastern Europe, Katherine Verdery had built up a significant base of ethnographic and historical expertise when the major political transformations in the region began to take place. In this book, which deals with the aftermath of Soviet-style socialism and...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
[1996]
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| Series: | Princeton studies in culture/power/history.
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| Online Access: | SocINDEX with Full Text |
| Summary: | Among the first anthropologists to work in Eastern Europe, Katherine Verdery had built up a significant base of ethnographic and historical expertise when the major political transformations in the region began to take place. In this book, which deals with the aftermath of Soviet-style socialism and the different forms that may replace it, she explores the nature of socialism in order to understand more fully its consequences. By analyzing her primary data from Romania and Transylvania and synthesizing information from other sources, Verdery lends a distinctive anthropological perspective to a variety of themes common to political and economic studies on the end of socialism: themes such as "civil society," the creation of market economies, privatization, national and ethnic conflict, and changing gender relations. Infused by an ethnographic sensibility, the book rejects the assumption of a transition to capitalism in favor of investigating local processes on their own terms. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (298 pages). |
| Format: | Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-287) and index. |
| ISBN: | 1282753037 1400821991 9781282753037 9781400821990 |