God LandPub Date : 2019-08-01DOI: 10.2307/j.ctvh1dgx2.6
{"title":"THE HEART OF THE HEARTLAND","authors":"","doi":"10.2307/j.ctvh1dgx2.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvh1dgx2.6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":136830,"journal":{"name":"God Land","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131623754","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
God LandPub Date : 2018-06-01DOI: 10.3167/FCL.2018.810105
Leonie Schiffauer
{"title":"DANGEROUS SPECULATION","authors":"Leonie Schiffauer","doi":"10.3167/FCL.2018.810105","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3167/FCL.2018.810105","url":null,"abstract":"The people of Aga, a small district in southeastern Siberia, have in recent\u0000years become managers, missionaries, and victims of a wave of pyramid and Ponzi\u0000schemes. The schemes come with the promise to make people rich. In reality, they\u0000benefit only a small minority of investors while increasing financial difficulties for\u0000the majority of participants and causing severe social conflict. This article deals\u0000with the local manifestation of these economic forms. Based on the ethnographic\u0000investigation of a pyramid scheme, I discuss techniques of make-believe in order\u0000to show how ordinary people become involved in a financial hoax. My discussion\u0000provides insights into the ways in which speculative thinking shapes imaginative\u0000horizons, pervades social logics, and impacts economic realities in a post-Soviet\u0000environment.","PeriodicalId":136830,"journal":{"name":"God Land","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115150262","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}