5-0310 BETWEEN AUTONOMY AND CONNECTION: CHANGING IDEAS AND PRACTICES OF SELF-SUFFICIENCY IN POSTSOCIALIST EURASIA

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Saturday, November 19, 2011: 10:15-12:00

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This session would be of particular interest to:
Those involved in mentoring activities, Students, Teachers of Anthropology in Community Colleges, Practicing and Applied Anthropologists

Organizers: Bea Vidacs (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology)

Chairs: Stephen Gudeman (University of Minnesota and Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology)

Discussants: Jane I Guyer (Johns Hopkins University)

10:15

"We Work to Have": Strategies and Contradictions of Self-Sufficiency In Moldova

Jennifer R Cash (Max Planck Institute for Social Antrhopology)

10:30

"They Work In a Closed Circle": Self-Sufficiency In House-Based Rural Tourism In the Rhodope Mountains, Bulgaria

Detelina Tocheva (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology)

10:45

Meanings of Self-Sufficiency and Community In a Kyrgyz Village

Nathan Light (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology)

11:00

"Working with My Own": Ideas of Self-Sufficiency and Forms of Resistance In a Macedonian Town

Miladina Monova (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology)

11:15

Emic Understandings of Self-Sufficiency: The Interplay Between Autonomy and Dependency

Monica C.A. Vasile (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology)

11:30

The Ideal of Self-Sufficiency and the Reality of Dependence: A Hungarian Case

Bea Vidacs (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology)

11:45

Discussant

Jane I Guyer (Johns Hopkins University)

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