Screen LibraryWhat was socialism, and what comes next?
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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Princeton University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Princeton, N.J. : |
| Publication Dates: | 1996. |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Princeton studies in culture/power/history
Princeton studies in culture/power/history |
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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. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (298 pages). |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-287) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781400821990 |
| Index Number: | HX373 |
| CLC: | D754.2 |
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What was socialism, and why did it fall? -- The "etatization" of time in Ceaus escu's Romania -- From parent-state to family patriarchs : gender and nation in contemporary Eastern Europe -- Nationalism and national sentiment in postsocialist Romania -- Civil society or nation? : "Europe" in the symbolism of postsocialist politics -- The elasticity of land : problems of property restitution in Transylvania -- Faith, hope, and caritas in the land of the pyramids, Romania, 1990-1994 -- A transition from socialism to feudalism? : thoughts on the postsocialist state. |