What happens when your once-dignified profession no longer supports a dignified lifestyle? In 1990s St. Petersburg, teachers had to find out the hard way. Although the institutions and ideologies of Soviet life situated them as cultured consumers, contemporary processes of marketization and privatization left them unable to attain what they now considered to be respectable material standards of living. In this fascinating new ethnographic study, Patico examines the various ways in which teachers have adjusted their activities and interactions as consumers, demonstrating how this has led to dramatic shifts in their assessments of their own lives and of the society around them. Consumption and Social Change in a Post-Soviet Middle Class presents a much-needed look at the lives of ordinary people in Russia today, in the process contributing both to postsocialist studies of social change and to broader anthropological theorizations of consumption and value.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Stanford University Press
ISBN-13
9780804700696
eBay Product ID (ePID)
96737951
Product Key Features
Author
Jennifer Patico
Publication Name
Consumption and Social Change in a Post-Soviet Middle Class
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
Anthropology
Publication Year
2008
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
240 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
229 mm
Item Width
152 mm
Item Weight
544 g
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
Title_Author
Jennifer Patico
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