Before the collapse of the Eastern Bloc, private marketeering was regarded not only as criminal, but even immoral by socialist regimes.

1 The Market in Everyday Life: Ethnographies of Postsocialism Part I Trading Cultures, Market Ambiguity, and Historical Transformation 2 Women and the Culture of Entrepreneurship in Soviet and Post-Soviet Azerbaijan 3 The Shame and Pride of Market Activity: Morality, Identity and Trading in Postsocialist Rural Bulgaria 4 Heritage and Enterprise Culture in Archangel, Northern Russia 5 Dealing with Money: Zotys, Dollars and Other Currencies in the Polish Highlands Part II Consumption and Modernities 6 Chasing Moths: Cleanliness, Intimacy and Progress in Romania, 7 Re-constructing the 'Normal': Identity and the Consumption of Western Goods in Estonia 8 Manufacturing the New Consumerism: Fast-Food Restaurants in Postsocialist Hungary Part III Rural and Institutional Transformations 9 Coping with the Market in Rural Ukraine 10 Mongolia in the 'Age of the Market': Pastoral Land-use and the Development Discourse 11 Broadening the Concept of Privatization: Gender and Development in Rural Kazakhstan

Ruth Mandel Lecturer in Anthropology,University College London Caroline Humphrey Professor of Asian Anthropology, University of Cambridge