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Economies of Favour after Socialism

David Henig

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Description for Economies of Favour after Socialism Hardback. A volume on the economics of favours and how they function as socially efficacious actions in post-socialist regions including central, eastern, and south eastern Europe; the former Soviet Union; Mongolia; and post-Maoist China. Editor(s): Henig, David; Makovicky, Nicolette. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: JH; JPFF; KCP; KFFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 163 x 242 x 21. Weight in Grams: 512.
Since the onset of the global economic crisis, activists, policy makers, and social scientists have been searching for alternative paradigms through which to re-imagine contemporary modes of thinking and writing about economic orders. These attempts have led to their re-engagement with fundamental anthropological categories of economic analysis, such as barter, debt, and the gift. Focusing on favours, and the paradoxes of action, meaning, and significance they engender, this volume advocates for their addition to this list of economic universals. It presents a critical re-interrogation of the conceptual relationships between gratuitous and instrumental behaviour, and raises novel questions about the intersection ... Read more

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Publisher

Oxford University Press

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Hardback

Publication date

2016

Condition

New

Weight

511g

Number of Pages

254

Place of Publication

Oxford, United Kingdom

ISBN

9780199687411

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V9780199687411

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About David Henig

Nicolette Makovicky is Lecturer of Russian and East European Studies at the University of Oxford. She is the editor of Neoliberalism, Personhood, Postsocialism: Enterprising Selves in Changing Economies (Ashgate, 2014) and has published extensively on informal economic activity in Central Europe. David Henig is Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the School of Anthropology and Conservation, University of Kent. His ... Read more

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,,,innovative and inspiring
Matías Dewey, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, the european electronic newsletter
Assembling a stellar collection of authors to address an exceptionally well formed and originalset of questions, this book achieves for favours what Humphrey and Hugh-JonesÃ¢s seminal Barter, Exchange, and Value did for barter: the creation of a sophisticated new category for ... Read morecomparative analysis. It also brings the anthropology of ethics into conversation with economic anthropology in a highly creative way, greatly to the benefit of both: a work of real importance.
James Laidlaw, William Wyse Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge
This collection offers a timely and compelling inquiry into favors as the Ã¢power of the exceptionÃ¢ illustrating the rule.Ethnographic accounts of how people strive to live the good life, understood in moral and material terms, take us beyond the familiar condemnatory analyses of corruption and patronage to offer new perspectives on exchange, debt, gifts, reciprocity and the social relations that sustain them.
Catherine Wanner, Professor of History, Anthropology, and Religious Studies, Pennsylvania State University
This book is not just for scholars of Eurasian post-socialisms. The contributors show convincingly that the centrality of favours to so many dimensions of social, cultural, economic, and political life in this part of the world is fertile ground for advancing broader analytical frameworksÃ¢of morality and ethics, of economy and society, of the semiotics of social life, and a great deal more. Favours have finally earned their own distinct place in social and cultural anthropology.
Douglas Rogers, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Yale University
In the popular imagination, favours are easily taken as the ultimate proof of the ideological and utilitarian failure of socialism. But the contributions to this volume show that favours are important to all economic formations, including the many invocations of capitalism in contemporary Post-Socialist countries.The ethnographies of favours offer intimate accounts of how new forms of inequality emerge and some old ones continue, of everyday struggles for respectability in volatile situations, and reveal how people navigate complex and contradictory moral demands. This volume illustrates how important it is to take people's own classifications of economic practices serious and that such classifications Ã¢in this case, favours- are fundamental to the advancement of economic theory.
Erik BÃhre, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Leiden
Casting a bright, new light on favours in the economy, the authors show that favours are embedded in moral and ethical ideals even when they subvert authorized practices.Neither purely instrumental nor mutual acts, neither reciprocity nor contract, favours are anomalous practices in formal economics just as they can be ambiguously interpreted in everyday life. The essays display how productive this ambiguity can be for a flourishing material existence.
Stephen Gudeman, Professor of Anthropology, University of Minnesota
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