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Economy and Ritual : Studies of Postsocialist Transformations / ed. by Chris Hann, Stephen Gudeman.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Max Planck Studies in Anthropology and Economy ; 1Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resource (214 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781782385691
  • 9781782385707
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.8009171 23
LOC classification:
  • GN585.E852 E46 2015
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Map of Field Sites for Economy and Ritual Group -- Introduction:Ritual, Economy, and the Institutions of the Base -- 1 Economy as Ritual: The Problems of Paying in Wine -- 2 Animals in the Kyrgyz Ritual Economy: Symbolic and Moral Dimensions of Economic Embedding -- 3 From Pig-Sticking to Festival Changes in Pig-Sticking Practices in the Hungarian Countryside -- 4 Kurban: Shifting Economy and the Transformations of a Ritual -- 5 The Trader’s Wedding: Ritual Inflation and Money Gifts in Transylvania -- 6 “We don’t have work. We just grow a little tobacco.” Household Economy and Ritual Effervescence in a Macedonian Town -- Appendix: The “Economy and Ritual” Project and the Field Questionnaire -- Contributors -- Index
Summary: 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.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Map of Field Sites for Economy and Ritual Group -- Introduction:Ritual, Economy, and the Institutions of the Base -- 1 Economy as Ritual: The Problems of Paying in Wine -- 2 Animals in the Kyrgyz Ritual Economy: Symbolic and Moral Dimensions of Economic Embedding -- 3 From Pig-Sticking to Festival Changes in Pig-Sticking Practices in the Hungarian Countryside -- 4 Kurban: Shifting Economy and the Transformations of a Ritual -- 5 The Trader’s Wedding: Ritual Inflation and Money Gifts in Transylvania -- 6 “We don’t have work. We just grow a little tobacco.” Household Economy and Ritual Effervescence in a Macedonian Town -- Appendix: The “Economy and Ritual” Project and the Field Questionnaire -- Contributors -- Index

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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.

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