ISBN:
9781782386964
Language:
Undetermined
Pages:
204 p.
Edition:
1st edition
Series Statement:
Max Planck Studies in Anthropology and Economy 2
Keywords:
General Anthropology
Abstract:
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.
Description / Table of Contents:
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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