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 much of what is critical for a people's economic life takes place outside markets and hinges on ritual, understood as the negation of the everyday world of economising.
| ISBN: | 9781785335198 |
| Publication date: | 1st May 2017 |
| Author: | Stephen F Gudeman, C M Hann |
| Publisher: | Berghahn Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 214 pages |
| Series: | Max Planck Studies in Anthropology and Economy |
| Genres: |
Social and cultural anthropology Central / national / federal government policies |
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 much of what is critical for a people's economic life takes place outside markets and hinges on ritual, understood as the negation of the everyday world of economising.
Economy and Ritual features in the following genres: Social and cultural anthropology, Central / national / federal government policies
Economy and Ritual is available in Paperback
Economy and Ritual was written by Stephen F Gudeman, C M Hann and published by Berghahn Books
Economy and Ritual has 214 pages
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