Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction 1
6. Spaces of Consumption
7. Building Projects of Well-Being 29
8. Khaliava 43
9. Reflections over a Full Supermarket Cart 61
10. Work and Employment
11. Working Nonworkers 79
12. The Sotsial’shchik 99
13. Work as a Line of Demarcation 117
14. Reinventing Tradition
15. Playing at Being Jews 135
16. Haunting Images 155
17. The Instrumentalization Trope 169
18. Conclusion 183
19. Notes 193
20. References 203
21. Index 231