Stephen (Hrsg.) Gudeman

Oikos and Market

Explorations in Self-Sufficiency After Socialism

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Self-sufficiency of the house is practiced in many parts of the world but ignored in economic theory, just as socialist collectivization is assumed to have brought household self-sufficiency to an end. The ideals of self-sufficiency, however, continue to shape economic activity in a wide range of postsocialist settings. This volume's six comparative studies of postsocialist villages in Eastern Europe and Asia illuminate the enduring importance of the house economy, which is based not on the market but on the order of the house. These formations show that economies depend not only on the macro institutions of markets and states but also on the… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Hann, Chris (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-1-78533-836-6
EAN: 9781785338366
Produktnummer: 24735664
Verlag: Berghahn Books
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Seitenangabe: 204 S.
Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D1.1 cm 304 g
Abbildungen: Paperback
Gewicht: 304

Über den Autor

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).