1. Capturing Change through Everyday Materialities in Postsocialist Romania.- 2. From Signs of Culturedness to Downgraded Items: Value at the Intersection between Display and Hiding.- 3. Consolidating Social Relations through Gift Exchange and Barter: Beyond the Norm of Reciprocity.-...
This book examines postsocialist transformations reflected in urban middle-class domestic spaces and in museums dedicated to socialism in Romania. It focuses on the significance and circulation of porcelain and crystal sets and ornaments during late socialism and after 1989,...