SESSION 3
April 24, 2008
Negotiating Capitalism in East-Central Europe
Wild East: Global Capitalism in East-Central Europe (Lecture and Discussion, 14.30­15.50)
Privatization and Consumerism: Discourses on Normality (Discussion, 16.05­17.25)
Trajectories of Social Change after 1989 (Lecture, 17.40­19.00)
Assigned reading:
* Konstantinov, Yulian (1996) Patterns of Reinterpretation: Trader-Tourism in the Balkans
(Bulgaria) as a Picaresque Metaphorical Enactment of Post-Totalitarianism. American
Ethnologist, Vol. 23, No. 4. (Nov. 1996), 762­782.
* Czegledy, André P. (1998) Villas of Wealth: A Historical Perspective on New Residences
in Post-Socialist Hungary. City and Society, Vol. 10, No. 1, 245­268.
* Dunn, Elizabeth (1999) Slick Salesmen and Simple People: Negotiated Capitalism in a
Privatized Polish Firm. In Michael Burawoy and Katherine Verdery, eds., Uncertain
Transition: Ethnographies of Change in the Postsocialist World (Lanham: Rowman and
Littlefield), 125­150. (*)
* Verdery, Katherine (1999) Fuzzy Property: Rights, Power and Identity in Transylvania's
Decollectivization. In Michael Burawoy and Katherine Verdery, eds., Uncertain Transition:
Ethnographies of Change in the Postsocialist World (Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield), 53­81.
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* Lemon, Alaina (2000) Talking Transit and Spectating Transition: The Moscow Metro. In
Daphne Berdahl, Matti Bunzl and Martha Lampland, eds., Altering States: Ethnographies of
Transition in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan
Press, 1­39. (*)
* Berdahl, Daphne (2001) "Go, Trabi, Go!": Reflections on a Car and Its Symbolization
over Time. Anthropology and Humanism, Vol. 25, No. 2, 131­141.
* Harper, Krista (2005) "Wild Capitalism" and "Ecocolonialism": A Tale of Two Rivers.
American Anthropologist, Vol. 107, No. 2. (Jun. 2005), 221­233.