Hunters, Gatherers, and Practitioners of Powerlessness : An Ethnography of the Degraded in Postsocialist Poland (European Anthropology in Translation) (Library Binding)

A dramatic account of the socio-economic transformations of the 1990s in Poland.

Tracks the experiences of unemployed miners, scrap collectors, and poverty-stricken village residents.

Traces the ways in which people actively reconfigure their lives.