Includes bibliographical references and index.

From socialist chiefs to postsocialist cadres: neotraditional authority in neoliberal Mozambique / Harry G. West -- 'For eating, it's Guangzhou': regional culinary traditions and Chinese socialism / Jakob A. Klewn -- Searching for the beautiful madness: of ruins and revolution in post-Sandinista Nicaragua / Dennis Rodgers -- The object of morality: rethinking informal networks in Central Europe / Nicolette Makovicky -- Vietnamese narratives of tradition, exchange and friendship in the world of the global socialist ecumene / Susan Bayly -- Waste under socialism and after: a case study from Almaty / Catherine Alexander -- Corruption and the one-party state in Tanzania: the view from Dar es Salaam, 1964-2000 / John R. Campbell -- Media and the limits of cynicism in postsocialist China / Kevin Latham -- The rooted anthropologies of east-central Europe / Charis Hann -- Historical analogies and the commune : the case of Putin/Stolypin / Caroline Humphrey -- Signifying something: Che Guevara and neoliberal alienation in London / Parvathi Raman.

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