Oikos and Market

Explorations in Self-Sufficiency after Socialism
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-78238-695-7
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 2, 204 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 454 g

Reihe: Max Planck Studies in Anthropology and Economy

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 micro institutions of families, communities, and house economies, often in an uneasy relationship.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gudeman, Stephen

Hann, Chris

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Materielle Kultur, Wirtschaftsethnologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Ethnographie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Gudeman, Stephen
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).

Hann, Chris
Chris Hann is a Founding Director of the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology at Halle. He formerly taught anthropology at the Universities of Cambridge and Kent. Hann is co-author of Economic Anthropology. History, Ethnography, Critique (2011) and co-editor of Market and Society: The Great Transformation Today (2009), both with Keith Hart.

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).