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Socialism - Ideals, Ideologies, and Local Practice (Paperback)
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Socialism - Ideals, Ideologies, and Local Practice (Paperback)
Series: ASA Monographs
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At a time when socialism appears to be on the wane, anthropological
analyses of its origins and worldwide diffusion are long overdue.
The aspirations of socialists have led to many dead-ends, and
revolutionary claims must be carefully scrutinized against a
background of cultural communities. Yet there are few, if any,
peoples in today's world who remain unaffected by socialism, both
as a political force and as a set of ideas, and no-one can doubt
that its cultural legacies will make themselves felt in years to
come, in the so-called First and Third worlds, as well as in its
Eurasian heartlands. While anthropological work illuminates some of
the mechanisms of the recent changes which have removed socialists
from power in many countries it also reveals the factors which have
given socialism such a profound worldwide impact, and which helped
socialist societies to reproduce themselves effectively for so
long. "Socialism" presents diverse examples of ideals and realities
and offers detailed ethnographic accounts of specific groups such
as rural cultivators in China and Tanzania, gypsies in Hungary,
actors in Czechoslovakia, and village women in Poland and
Industrial North-East England.
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