| Description |
xiv, 271 pages ; 24 cm |
| Series |
ASA monographs ; 31 |
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A.S.A. monographs ; 31
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| Contents |
Foreword / Ernest Gellner -- Introduction: social anthropology and socialism / C.M. Hann -- 1. Primitive communism and mutual aid: Kropotkin visits the Bushmen / Alan Barnard -- 2. The anarchy and collectivism of the 'primitive other': Marx and Sahlins in the Amazon / Joanna Overing -- 3. The construct of 'Africa' in 'African Socialism' / Ralph Grillo -- 4. Socialism from above in Tanzania: the view from below / Pat Caplan -- 5. Party, bureaucracy, and grassroots initiatives in a socialist state: the case of Sungusungu village vigilantes in Tanzania / Ray Abrahams and Sufian Bukurura -- 6. Ambiguities and contradictions in the political management of culture in Zimbabwe's reversed transition to socialism / A.P. Cheater |
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7. Anthropology and the politics of socialism in rural Sri Lanka / Jonathan Spencer -- 8. Buddhism and economic action in socialist Laos / Grant Evans -- 9. The domestication of religion under Soviet communism / Tamara Dragadze -- 10. Socialism and the Chinese peasant / Jack M. Potter -- 11. Ethnic relations, economies of shortage, and the transition in Eastern Europe / Katherine Verdery -- 12. Gypsies, the work ethic, and Hungarian socialism / Michael Stewart -- 13. The end of socialism in Czechoslovakia / Ladislav Holy -- 14. 'Socialism is dead' and very much alive in Slovakia: political inertia in a Tatra village / Peter Skalnik -- 15. 'The cows and pigs are his, the eggs are mine': women's domestic economy and entrepreneurial activity in rural Poland / Frances Pine |
| Analysis |
Socialism |
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Socialism |
| Notes |
Papers from a conference held at the University Centre in Cambridge, Apr. 9-12, 1991 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
A.S.A. monographs no:31 0066-9679 |
| Subject |
Ethnology -- Congresses.
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Ethnology.
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Socialism and culture -- Congresses.
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Socialism and culture.
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Socialism -- Cross-cultural studies -- Congresses.
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Socialism -- Cross-cultural studies.
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Author |
Hann, C. M., 1953-
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| LC no. |
92015337 |
| ISBN |
0415083222 |
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