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Hann’s theoretical interests are closely related to his [[Ethnography|ethnographic research]]. He was a pioneer anthropological investigator of what he calls “[[Marxist-Leninist-Maoist]] socialism”. Since 1990 he has traced the distinctive pathways of “[[postsocialism]]” within a [[Global Political Economy|global political economy]]. Hann has been critical of terms like “[[market economy]]” and “[[civil society]]”, predicting at an early stage that the slogans and strategies on which foreign advisers and local elites agreed would not deliver the goods that the mass of citizens hoped for.<ref>(Ed.) ''Market Economy and Civil Society in Hungary'' Brighton: 1990; ''Civil society: challenging western models'' (ed. With Elizabeth Dunn) London: 1996. ''The skeleton at the feast'' Canterbury. 1996.</ref> The main theme of his team research in the first years of the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology (1999-2005) was the [[privatization]] of [[collective property]].<ref>“From production to property”, ''Man'' 1993 28 (3): 299-320; ''Property relations: renewing the anthropological tradition'' (ed.) Cambridge:1998; ''The postsocialist agrarian question'' (with the Property Relations Group) Münster: 2003; (ed.) ''Property Relations'' Halle: 2005 http://www.eth.mpg.de/3026998/2000---2005---dep---hann</ref> This was followed by collective research into religious transformation after socialism (2003-2010). In his personal contributions to this work Hann frequently draws on his knowledge of the [[Eastern Catholic Churches|Greek Catholics]] of [[Central Europe]] to critique a Western, essentially [[Protestantism|Protestant]], bias in the Anglophone “[[Christian anthropology|anthropology of Christianity]]”.<ref>(ed.) 2010 ''Religion, identities, postsocialism. The Halle Focus Group, 2003-2010:''