Describes how the ideals of self-sufficiency shape economic activity in many post-socialist areas. Six comparative studies of post-socialist villages in Eastern Europe and Asia illuminate the enduring importance of the house economy. Examines how economies depend not only on the macro institutions of markets and states but also on the micro institutions of families, communities, and house economies, often in an uneasy relationship.
Describes how the ideals of self-sufficiency shape economic activity in many post-socialist areas. Six comparative studies of post-socialist villages in Eastern Europe and Asia illuminate the enduring importance of the house economy. Examines how economies depend not only on the macro institutions of markets and states but also on the micro institutions of families, communities, and house economies, often in an uneasy relationship.
Stephen Gudeman is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Minnesota and was formerly co-director of the Economy and Ritual project at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle. His most recent publications are Economic Persuasions (2009) and Economy and Ritual: Studies in Postsocialist Transformations (co-edited with Chris Hann, 2015).
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List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction: Self-Sufficiency as Reality and as Myth Stephen Gudeman and Chris Hann Chapter 1. The Ideal of Self-Sufficiency and the Reality of Dependence: A Hungarian Case Bea Vidacs Chapter 2. How Much is Enough? Household Provisioning, Self-Sufficiency and Social Status in Rural Moldova Jennifer R. Cash Chapter 3. When the Household Meets the State: Ajvar Cooking and Householding in Postsocialist Macedonia Miladina Monova Chapter 4. Self-Sufficiency is Not Enough: Ritual Intensification and Household Economies in a Kyrgyz Village Nathan Light Chapter 5. "They Work in a Closed Circle": Self-Sufficiency in House-Based Rural Tourism in the Rhodope Mountains, Bulgaria Detelina Tocheva Chapter 6. Self-Sufficiency and "Being One's Own Master" among Transylvanian Forest Dwellers Monica Vasile Notes on Contributors Index
List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction: Self-Sufficiency as Reality and as Myth Stephen Gudeman and Chris Hann Chapter 1. The Ideal of Self-Sufficiency and the Reality of Dependence: A Hungarian Case Bea Vidacs Chapter 2. How Much is Enough? Household Provisioning, Self-Sufficiency and Social Status in Rural Moldova Jennifer R. Cash Chapter 3. When the Household Meets the State: Ajvar Cooking and Householding in Postsocialist Macedonia Miladina Monova Chapter 4. Self-Sufficiency is Not Enough: Ritual Intensification and Household Economies in a Kyrgyz Village Nathan Light Chapter 5. "They Work in a Closed Circle": Self-Sufficiency in House-Based Rural Tourism in the Rhodope Mountains, Bulgaria Detelina Tocheva Chapter 6. Self-Sufficiency and "Being One's Own Master" among Transylvanian Forest Dwellers Monica Vasile Notes on Contributors Index
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