Format:
1 Online-Ressource (1 online resource)
ISBN:
1782385703
,
9781782385707
Series Statement:
Max Planck Studies in Anthropology and Economy v. 1
Content:
According to accepted wisdom, rational practices and ritual action are opposed. Rituals drain wealth from capital investment and draw on a mode of thought different from practical ideas. The studies in this volume contest this view. Comparative, historical, and contemporary, the six ethnographies extend from Macedonia to Kyrgyzstan. Each one illuminates the economic and ritual changes in an area as it emerged from socialism and (re- )entered market society. Cutting against the idea that economy only means markets and that market action exhausts the meaning of economy, the studies show that muc
Content:
Introduction : ritual, economy and the institutions of the base / Stephen Gudeman and Chris Hann -- Economy as ritual : the problems of paying in wine / Jennifer Cash -- Animals in the Kyrgyz ritual economy : symbolic and moral dimensions of economic embedding / Nathan Light -- From pig-sticking to festival : changes in pig-sticking practices in the Hungarian countryside / Bea Vidacs -- Kurban : shifting economy and the transformations of a ritual / Detelina Tocheva -- The trader's wedding : ritual inflation and money gifts in Transylvania / Monica Vasile -- "We don't have work, we just grow a little tobacco" : household economy and ritual effervescence in a Macedonian town / Miladina Monova.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
9781782385691
Additional Edition:
178238569X
Additional Edition:
9781782385691
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Economy and ritual New York : Berghahn Books, [2015]
Language:
English
Keywords:
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