Economy and ritual : studies of postsocialist transformations /

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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 ex...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Gudeman, Stephen F. (Editor ), Hann, C. M., 1953- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Berghahn Books, 2015.
Colección:Max Planck studies in anthropology and economy.
Temas:
Economic anthropology > Europe, Eastern > Case studies.
Economic anthropology > Former Soviet republics > Case studies.
Rites and ceremonies > Economic aspects > Europe, Eastern > Case studies.
Rites and ceremonies > Economic aspects > Former Soviet republics > Case studies.
Post-communism > Social aspects > Europe, Eastern > Case studies.
Post-communism > Social aspects > Former Soviet republics > Case studies.
Anthropologie économique > Europe de l'Est > Études de cas.
Anthropologie économique > Ex-URSS > Études de cas.
Rites et cérémonies > Aspect économique > Europe de l'Est > Études de cas.
Rites et cérémonies > Aspect économique > Ex-URSS > Études de cas.
Postcommunisme > Aspect social > Europe de l'Est > Études de cas.
Postcommunisme > Aspect social > Ex-URSS > Études de cas.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Economy.
Economic anthropology
Manners and customs
Post-communism > Social aspects
Europe, Eastern > Social life and customs > Case studies.
Former Soviet republics > Social life and customs > Case studies.
Europe de l'Est > Mœurs et coutumes > Études de cas.
Ex-URSS > Mœurs et coutumes > Études de cas.
Eastern Europe
Soviet Union > Former Soviet republics
Case studies
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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