Publication details
Consuming socialism: socialised socialist shops
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| Year of publication | 2003 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | Thinking Together. Proceedings of the IWM Junior Fellows' Conference, Winter 2003 |
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| Web | http://www.iwm.at/publ-jvc/jc-16-02.pdf |
| Field | Archaeology, anthropology, ethnology |
| Keywords | Socialism; consumption; shops; alienation |
| Description | The study deals with the trade and shops in a Slovak village of Pekarka during socialist era. It argues that unlike in other socialist places the shops in Pekarka were not allienated and explains why. The reasons were incorporation of new shops and increase in consumption into the socialist story of Progress and embedednes of shops into the traditional social life of the village. |