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Thinking Between the Posts: Postcolonialism, Postsocialism, and Ethnography after the Cold War
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Read More...Anthropology of Socialist Societies
Socialist (also known as communist) societies constitute a class of twentieth-century societies sharing two distinctive features: the political dominance of a revolutionary — usually a Communist — Party, and widespread nationalization of means of production, with consequent preponderance of state and collective property. This definition excludes societies governed by socialist or social-democratic parties in multi-party systems, such as the Scandinavian welfare states. It includes, among others, the Soviet Union, the East European countries, the People’s Republic of China, Mongolia, North Korea, Vietnam, South Yemen, Cuba, Nicaragua, Ethiopia, and Mozambique.
Read More...Dialogic Collectivization: “Rich Peasants” and Unreliable Cadres in the Romanian Countryside, 1948-1959
The relationship between peasants and the state has long been a central topic in analyzing agrarian societies, such as Romania’s in the first half of the 20th century.i Important elements in this relation include the balance of political forces in the state (understood as a collection of groupings having potentially different agendas); the state’s [...]
Read More...Faith, Hope, and Caritas in the Land of the Pyraminds, Romania 1990-94
Even before entering Romania in September 1993 for a year’s research, I had begun hearing about Caritas. As I lunched one day that summer with a Romanian friend visiting Washington, I learned that she had just bought an apartment in an expensive quarter of Bucharest. “How did you manage that?” I asked, and she replied, [...]
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