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One Hundred Years Of Argonauts - Malinowski, Ethnography And Economic Anthropology

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 Malinowskiâ€™s pioneering work remains critical for anthropology in a postcolonial age. This volume uses ethnographic studies from around the world to contextualize the work politically and intellectually, examining its gestation and influence from multiple perspectives.
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Wine Is Our Bread - Labour And Value In Moldovan Winemaking

by Daniela Ana

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 Based on ethnographic work in a Moldovan winemaking village, Wine Is Our Bread shows how workers in a prestigious winery have experienced the countryâ€™s recent entry into the globalized wine market and how their productive activities at home and in the winery contribute to the value of commercial terroir wines.
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Wine Is Our Bread - Labour And Value In Moldovan Winemaking

by Daniela Ana

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 Based on ethnographic work in a Moldovan winemaking village, Wine Is Our Bread shows how workers in a prestigious winery have experienced the countryâ€™s recent entry into the globalized wine market and how their productive activities at home and in the winery contribute to the value of commercial terroir wines.
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One Hundred Years Of Argonauts - Malinowski, Ethnography And Economic Anthropology

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 Malinowskiâ€™s pioneering work remains critical for anthropology in a postcolonial age. This volume uses ethnographic studies from around the world to contextualize the work politically and intellectually, examining its gestation and influence from multiple perspectives.
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Broken Glass, Broken Class - Transformations Of Work In Bulgaria

by Dimitra Kofti

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 Based on a long-term study of the everyday postsocialist politics of labour in the wider context of intense socio-economic transformation in Bulgaria, this book tells the story of the flexibilization of production, the precaritization of work, shifting managerial practices, and ways in which people with different employment statuses live and work together.
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German Division As Shared Experience - Interdisciplinary Perspectives On The Postwar Everyday

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 German Division as Shared Experience shows the extent to which the story of East and West Germany was one of mutual entanglement after 1945. By subsuming political considerations into the historical domain of the social and cultural, each of the innovative studies presented here analyzes moments of connection at the level of lived experience across the East-West divide.
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Jaguars Of The Dawn - Spirit Mediumship In The Brazilian Vale Do Amanhecer

by Emily Pierini

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 Drawing upon over a decade of extensive fieldwork in temples of the Vale do Amanhecer in Brazil and Europe, this ethnography explores how mediums understand their experiences and how they learn to establish relationships with their spirit guides.
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Broken Glass, Broken Class - Transformations Of Work In Bulgaria

by Dimitra Kofti

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 Based on a long-term study of the everyday postsocialist politics of labour in the wider context of intense socio-economic transformation in Bulgaria, this book tells the story of the flexibilization of production, the precaritization of work, shifting managerial practices, and ways in which people with different employment statuses live and work together.
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Theorizing Entrepreneurship For The Future - Stories From Global Frontiers

by Joost Beuving

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 Presenting a new interpretation of entrepreneurial behaviour, this book focuses on how entrepreneurs consider the future. The study theorizes entrepreneurial behaviour as â€˜future-workâ€™: the social practices, language and rituals through which entrepreneurs neutralize or smoothen future unknowns.
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Kitchen Witchcraft: The Element Of Water

by Rachel Patterson

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 Learn rituals, spells, meditations, and more, involving the element of water.
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Industrial Labor On The Margins Of Capitalism - Precarity, Class, And The Neoliberal Subject

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 The focus on regular versus precarious labour. Case studies from outside the familiar Euro-American core. Ethnographic methods, linking factory work to households and communities. Focus on multiple dimensions of social inequality in diverse industrial settings and on how they interact.
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Thrift And Its Paradoxes - From Domestic To Political Economy

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 Through a wide range of ethnographic contexts this book explores how practices and moralities of thrift are intertwined with austerity, debt, welfare, and patronage across various social and temporal scales and are constantly re-negotiated at the nexus of socio-economic, religious, and kinship ideals and praxis.
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Thrift And Its Paradoxes - From Domestic To Political Economy

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 Through a wide range of ethnographic contexts this book explores how practices and moralities of thrift are intertwined with austerity, debt, welfare, and patronage across various social and temporal scales and are constantly re-negotiated at the nexus of socio-economic, religious, and kinship ideals and praxis.
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Wine Is Our Bread - Labour And Value In Moldovan Winemaking

by Daniela Ana

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 Based on ethnographic work in a Moldovan winemaking village, Wine Is Our Bread shows how workers in a prestigious winery have experienced the countryâ€™s recent entry into the globalized wine market and how their productive activities at home and in the winery contribute to the value of commercial terroir wines.
Wine Is Our Bread - Labour And Value In Moldovan Winemaking

by Daniela Ana

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 Based on ethnographic work in a Moldovan winemaking village, Wine Is Our Bread shows how workers in a prestigious winery have experienced the countryâ€™s recent entry into the globalized wine market and how their productive activities at home and in the winery contribute to the value of commercial terroir wines.
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Moral Economy At Work - Ethnographic Investigations In Eurasia

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 The idea of a moral economy has been explored and assessed in numerous disciplines. The anthropological studies in this volume provide a new perspective to this idea by showing how the relations of workers, employees and employers, and of firms, families and households are interwoven with local notions of moralities.
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Moral Economy At Work - Ethnographic Investigations In Eurasia

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 The idea of a moral economy has been explored and assessed in numerous disciplines. The anthropological studies in this volume provide a new perspective to this idea by showing how the relations of workers, employees and employers, and of firms, families and households are interwoven with local notions of moralities.
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Market Frictions - Trade And Urbanization At The Vietnam-China Border

by Kirsten W. Endres

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 Based on ethnographic research conducted during several years, Market Frictions examines the tensions and frictions that emerge from the interaction of global market forces, urban planning policies, and small-scale trading activities in the Vietnamese border city of Lao Cai.
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Industrial Labor On The Margins Of Capitalism - Precarity, Class, And The Neoliberal Subject

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 The focus on regular versus precarious labour. Case studies from outside the familiar Euro-American core. Ethnographic methods, linking factory work to households and communities. Focus on multiple dimensions of social inequality in diverse industrial settings and on how they interact.
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Economy And Ritual - Studies Of Postsocialist Transformations

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 These six ethnographies offer a different vision. Comparative, historical, and contemporary, the studies stretch from Macedonia to Kyrgyzstan, each one illuminating the changes in an area as it emerged from socialism and (re-)entered market society.
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When Things Become Property - Land Reform, Authority And Value In Postsocialist Europe And Asia

by Johannes Stahl, Phuc Xuan To, Stefan Dorondel e Thomas Sikor

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 When Things Become Property examines postsocialist land and forest reforms in Albania, Romania and Vietnam, finding that property reforms are not miracle tools available to governments for refashioning economies, politics or environments.
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Oikos And Market - Explorations In Self-Sufficiency After Socialism

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 This volume's six comparative investigations of postsocialist communities illuminate the universal significance of Aristotle's vision of the oikos, an economy based on the order of the house.
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Oikos And Market - Explorations In Self-Sufficiency After Socialism

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 This volumeâ€™s six comparative investigations of postsocialist communities illuminate the universal significance of Aristotleâ€™s vision of the oikos, an economy based on the order of the house. These postsocialist configurations show that economies depend on macro institutions of markets and states, and also on the micro institutions of families, communities, and house economies.
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Economy And Ritual - Studies Of Postsocialist Transformations

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 These six ethnographies offer a different vision. Comparative, historical, and contemporary, the studies stretch from Macedonia to Kyrgyzstan, each one illuminating the changes in an area as it emerged from socialism and (re-)entered market society.
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