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"Not the horse we wanted!" : postsocialism, neoliberalism, and Eurasia

Title: "Not the horse we wanted!" : postsocialism, neoliberalism, and Eurasia / Chris Hann.
Author: Hann, C. M., 1953-
Publication: Münster : Lit ; Picataway, NJ : Distributed in North America by Transaction Publishers, ©2006.

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Description

x, 292 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm.

Summary

"The title of this volume was supplied by a Hungarian villager, who made use of a popular idiom to express his disillusionment with the results of rural privatisation. Chris Hann draws on his own ethnographic materials from Hungary and elsewhere to explore a wide range of topics, from political economy to questions of ethnic and religious identity and minority rights. Applying a broad definition of 'property relations', he argues that private ownership, multi-party politics and the proliferation of NGOs are poor compensation for a decline in the substantive material and moral conditions of citizenship. Underlying all the chapters is an inclusive, eclectic approach to contemporary anthropology. Hann concludes by arguing that anthropologists of all traditions and theoretical persuasions need to renew their engagement with world history. To recognise the enduring unity of Eurasia is an important step towards overcoming the distortions of Eurocentrism."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

Halle studies in the anthropology of Eurasia ; v. 10

Uniform Title

Halle studies in the anthropology of Eurasia ; v. 10.

Subject

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-286) and index.
Includes bibliography of works by C.M. Hann, 1979-2005.

Contents

Property, work, exploitation. The tragedy of the privates : efficiency, equity, and justice in the postsocialist Eurasian countryside ; "Not the horse we wanted!" : procedure and legitimacy in postsocialist privatisation in Tázlár ; Proper peasants, Stakhanovites, and the lilies of the field : work and time in anthropological perspective ; Transforming peasants : exploitation and neoliberal markets in four societies -- Religion, ethnicity, citizenship. Civil society, civil religion, and postsocialist civility ; Greek Catholicism today ; History and ethnicity in Anatolia ; Inconcruent identities in polyphonic polities ; Conclusion : anthropological approaches to Eurasia.

ISBN

3825880508
9783825880507

LCCN

99814219420

OCLC

ocm70249237
SCSB-14395864

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library