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  • MARKETS AND MORALITIES
    CAROLINE HUMPHREY / RUTH MANDEL
    Before the collapse of the Eastern Bloc, private marketeering was regarded not only as criminal, but even immoral by socialist regimes. Ten years after taking on board western market-orientated shock therapy, post-socialist societies are still struggling to come to terms with the clash between these deeply engrained moralities and the daily pressures to sell and consume. This b...

    $1,160.00

  • PROPERTY IN QUESTION
    CAROLINE HUMPHREY / ‎KATHERINE VERDERY
    How has it come about that indigenous cultures, body parts, and sequences of musical notes are considered property? How has the movement from collective to privatized systems affected notions of property? At what point in transaction chains do native cultures, indigenous medicines, or cyberdata become objects and therefore propertized, and what are the social, economic, and eth...

    $1,100.00

  • URBAN LIFE IN POST-SOVIET ASIA
    ALEXANDER, CATHARINE / BUCHLI, VICTOR / HUMPHREY, CAROLINE
    Capturing a unique historical moment, this book examines the changes in urban life since the collapse of the Soviet Union from an ethnographic perspective, thus addressing significant gaps in the literature on cities, Central Asia and post-socialism. It encompasses Tashkent, Almaty, Astana and Ulan-Ude: four cities with quite different responses to the fall of the Soviet Union....

    $1,320.00

  • A MONASTERY IN TIME
    CAROLINE HUMPHREY / HURELBAATAR UJEED
    A Monastery in Time is the first book to describe the life of a Mongolian Buddhist monastery—the Mergen Monastery in Inner Mongolia—from inside its walls. From the Qing occupation of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries through the Cultural Revolution, Caroline Humphrey and Hürelbaatar Ujeed tell a story of religious formation, suppression, and survival over a history that s...

    $594.08

  • BECOMING A SOCIAL WORKER
    CAROLINE HUMPHREY
    This book explores the journey of becoming a social worker. It is based upon the experiences of social work students themselves and therefore provides a unique ′inside-out′ perspective. By showing that personal, professional and political elements are interwoven in students′ journeys, the author demonstrates that integrating these elements is vital to critical reflection and re...

    $1,500.30