Economy and Ritual: Studies in Postsocialist Transformations: 1 (Max Planck Studies in Anthropology and Economy, 1) - Softcover

 
9781785335198: Economy and Ritual: Studies in Postsocialist Transformations: 1 (Max Planck Studies in Anthropology and Economy, 1)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1785335197 ISBN 13: 9781785335198
Verlag: Berghahn Books, 2017

Inhaltsangabe

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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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Stephen Gudeman, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Minnesota, has undertaken fieldwork in several countries of Latin America. During 2008-2012 he was co-director of the Economy and Ritual project at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle. Gudeman has published extensively in journals and written or edited eight books, the most recent of which are Economy’s Tension (2008) and Economic Persuasions (2009).



Chris Hann is a Founding Director of the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology at Halle. He formerly taught anthropology at the Universities of Cambridge and Kent (Canterbury). Hann is co-author of Economic Anthropology. History, Ethnography, Critique (2011) and co-editor of Market and Society: The Great Transformation Today (2009).

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Verlag
Berghahn Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2017
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1785335197
ISBN 13 
9781785335198
Einband
Tapa blanda
Anzahl der Seiten
216
Herausgeber
Hann Chris, Gudeman Stephen
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