pigs, party secretaries, and private lives in Hungary

1 August 1991

journal article
Published by Wiley in American Ethnologist

Vol. 18 (3) , 459-479
https://doi.org/10.1525/ae.1991.18.3.02a00030

Abstract

Studies of the agricultural second economy in Hungary have focused on the role of recent state policies. It will be argued here that the specific character of socialist planning and practice cannot be understood without exploring changes in the form of social value over the last hundred years. This process, the commodification of social life, is also analyzed as the basis of anthropological theories of meaning. An alternative view of social process and nonreferential meaning is offered. [meaning, commodification, work, agriculture, socialism, Hungary]

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