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Dimensions of Ritual Economy.
Economists have acknowledged that a major limitation to economic theory has been its failure to incorporate human values and beliefs as motivational factors. This book addresses the problem by bringing together anthropologists with diverse backgrounds in.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bradford :
Emerald Group Pub.,
2008.
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| Colección: | Research in Economic Anthropology, 27.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Dimensions of Ritual Economy; Copyright page; Contents; List of contributors; Chapter 1. Toward a theory of ritual economy; Provisioning and consuming; Materializing and substantiating worldview; Managing meaning and shaping interpretation; Acknowledgments; The challenge ahead; References; Part I: Provisioning and Consuming; Chapter 2. Liturgical forms of economic allocations; Chapter 3. Crafting the sacred: Ritual places and paraphernalia in small-scale societies; Chapter 4. The political ecology of ritual feasting; Part II: Materializing and Substantiating Worldview.
- Chapter 5. Ritual economy among the Nahua of Northern Veracruz, MexicoChapter 6. Weaving ritual and the production of commemorative cloth in Highland Guatemala; Chapter 7. ''Desires of the heart'' and laws of the marketplace: Money and poetics, past and present, in highland Madagascar; Part III: Managing Meaning and Shaping Interpretation; Chapter 8. Environmental worldview and ritual economy among the Honduran Lenca; Chapter 9. Shaping s.