Incluye referencias bibliográficas e índice Based on the papers presented at the conference "Ethnographies in transition" held in March 1996, at the University of California, Berkeley. CONTENIDO: Introduction / Michael Burawoy, Katherine Verdery -- Traders, "Disorder," and Citizenship Regimes in Provincial Russia / Caroline Humphrey -- Fuzzy Property: Rights, Power, and Identity in Transylvania's Decollectivization / Katherine Verdery -- Barter of the Bankrupt: The Politics of Demonetization in Russia's Federal State / David Woodruff -- Slick Salesmen and Simple People: Negotiated Capitalism in a Privatized Polish Firm / Elizabeth Dunn -- "But We Are Still Mothers": Gender, the State, and the Construction of Need in Postsocialist Hungary / Lynne Haney -- Polish Peasants in the "Valley of Transition": Responses to Postsocialist Reforms / Slawomira Zbierski-Salameh -- Deconstructing Socialism in Bulgaria / Gerald W. Creed -- Redefining the Collective: Russian Mineworkers in Transition / Sarah Ashwin -- Portable Worlds: On the Limits of Replication in the Czech and Slovak Republics / Andrew Lass -- Afterword / Michael Burawoy.
