A Market Out of Place?

Remaking Economic, Social, and Symbolic Boundaries in Post-Communist Lithuania
Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-0-19-926762-0
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 176 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 440 g

Reihe: Oxford Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology

Focuses on the seamy side of market economy in Lithuania and shows how a 'market' becomes established by people, sacrifices, and contestation. It pictures the hardship of entrepreneurs creating market economies by travelling to buy merchandise for resale, and shows how their ideas slowly develop into established routines in a stable market.

Pernille Hohnen has written a detailed ethnography of a Lithuanian market place in the mid-1990s and as such contributes significantly to the understanding of a phenomenon largely unaccounted for by anthropologists, namely shuttle trading, and a new form

Conceptualizing 'Transition'; From 'Speculation' to Trading; Learning to Trade; How to 'Read the Market'; New Forms of Discipline; Ethnic Relations and Trans-Ethnic Discourses; Contested Images of Gender; Work versus Trading; Remaking Boundaries; APPENDIX; Selected Newspaper Articles about Gariunai Market 1989-1995

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hohnen, Pernille

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Unternehmensführung
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Unternehmensorganisation, Corporate Responsibility Selbstständige & Freiberufler
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Unternehmensorganisation, Corporate Responsibility Kleine und Mittlere Unternehmen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Soziale Gruppen & Klassen

Über Autor(innen)

(Senior Researcher, The Danish National Institute of Social Research, Denmark)