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Markets and Moralities
Caroline Humphrey
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Description for Markets and Moralities
Paperback. This book explores the new market and its resulting contradictions in a rapidly developing Eastern Europe and Russia. Will Western fast-food industries, such as McDonalds, irrevocably alter local culinary practices? What effect has the privatization of land had upon ownership and exchange? Editor(s): Humphrey, Caroline; Mandel, Ruth. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DV; JHM; KCS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 143 x 15. Weight in Grams: 314.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781859735770
SKU
V9781859735770
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About Caroline Humphrey
Ruth Mandel Lecturer in Anthropology,University College London Caroline Humphrey Professor of Asian Anthropology, University of Cambridge
Reviews for Markets and Moralities
'This book provides an important contribution to post-socialist studies by locating 'the market' firmly in the socially constituted practices of post-socialist societies ... What we have is a series of 'tasters' of what are clearly individual, extensive and fascinating ethnographic studies.'Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies'The introductory chapter by the editors is exquisite... this is one of the first anthropological ... Read more