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Economy and ritual : studies of postsocialist transformations / edited by Stephen Gudeman and Chris Hann.

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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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Other Authors: Gudeman, Stephen F. (Editor), Hann, C. M., 1953- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Berghahn Books, 2015.
Series:Max Planck studies in anthropology and economy.
Subjects:
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.
Europe, Eastern > Social life and customs > Case studies.
Former Soviet republics > Social life and customs > Case studies.
Economic anthropology.
Manners and customs.
Post-communism > Social aspects.
Eastern Europe.
Soviet Union > Former Soviet republics.
Case studies.
Table of Contents:
  • 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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