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Capturing Change Through Everyday Materialities in Postsocialist Romania

2021
The introduction advances the main objective of the book, examining postsocialist transformations in Romania by looking at objects in domestic spaces and museums focused on the socialist past. It presents the category of objects analyzed in the book—crystal, porcelain, and glassware items produced and acquired during socialism in Romania and other ...
Maria Cristache
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The privatization of death: the emergence of private cemeteries in Romania’s postsocialist deathscape

Journal of Southeast European and Black Sea, 2020
Private cemeteries constitute a new development in the Romanian postsocialist death system that poses a challenge to the traditional burial culture.
Mihai Stelian Rusu
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The Ethnographer as Merchant. Making Commissioned Home Movies in Postsocialist Romania

2021
Unconceivable until a decade ago, and still highly uncommon, in some instances anthropologists are remunerated by their informers and interlocutors. Based on a long-term inquiry in a Roma village, in Romania, I propose to examine how a commercial social relationship, specific to the practice of commissioned home movies, participates in the meaning of ...
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Miners and Wives in Romania's Jiu Valley: Perspectives on Postsocialist Class, Gender, and Social Change

Identities, 2004
Theories of postsocialism posit great variability, uncertainty, and change in developing gender relationships. This article, using the case of Romania's Jiu Valley coal miners, suggests that gender change in postsocialism is somewhat more predictable than assumed as it is most typically dependent on changing class hierarchies and conditions.
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Preserves Exiting Socialism: Authenticity, Anti-standardization, and Middle-Class Consumption in Postsocialist Romania

International Series on Consumer Science, 2018
This chapter studies Romanian fruit preservation universe with its specific techniques and different ways of experiencing. Originating from the socialist shortages, the practice of preparing food preserves in jars was transformed into modern, creative domestic leisure of Romanian middle-class consumers.
Mónica Stroe
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