A Market Out of Place? (Oxford Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology Series): Remaking Economic, Social, and Symbolic Boundaries in Post-Communist Lithuania

Pernille Hohnen's book is a detailed ethnography of a Lithuanian market place in the mid-1990s and as such contributes significantly to the understanding of a phenomenon largely unaccounted for by anthropologists, namely shuttle trading and a new form of transnationalism connected to the numerous outdoor markets that were established all over Eastern and Central Europe during the 1990s - most of which still flourish. Traders go as far as China, India, Turkey, and Poland and bring back items for local consumption as well as for retail, not only within the country, but throughout the region. By combining a synchronic analysis of the market with a more processual analysis of changing trading practices during the crucial 10-year period of the 1990s, the book sheds important light on processes of creativity and venture as well as on the more gradual institutionalization of trading practices such as trade routes, trading routines, technology, and forms of political control.


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