Includes bibliographical references and index.

From socialist chiefs to postsocialist cadres: neotraditional author ity in neoliberal Mozambique / Harry G. West -- 'For eating, it's Guang zhou': regional culinary traditions and Chinese socialism / Jakob A. Kl ewn -- Searching for the beautiful madness: of ruins and revolution in post-Sandinista Nicaragua / Dennis Rodgers -- The object of morality: r ethinking informal networks in Central Europe / Nicolette Makovicky -- Vietnamese narratives of tradition, exchange and friendship in the worl d of the global socialist ecumene / Susan Bayly -- Waste under socialis m and after: a case study from Almaty / Catherine Alexander -- Corrupti on and the one-party state in Tanzania: the view from Dar es Salaam, 19 64-2000 / John R. Campbell -- Media and the limits of cynicism in posts ocialist China / Kevin Latham -- The rooted anthropologies of east-cent ral Europe / Charis Hann -- Historical analogies and the commune : the case of Putin/Stolypin / Caroline Humphrey -- Signifying something: Che Guevara and neoliberal alienation in London / Parvathi Raman.