03877nam 2200697 450 991046372680332120200520144314.01-78533-519-71-78238-570-3(CKB)2670000000595588(EBL)1707812(MiAaPQ)EBC1707812(Au-PeEL)EBL1707812(CaPaEBR)ebr11019559(CaONFJC)MIL728737(OCoLC)903489433(EXLCZ)99267000000059558820150220h20152015 uy 0engur|n|---|||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierEconomy and ritual studies of postsocialist transformations /edited by Stephen Gudeman and Chris HannNew York, [New York] ;Oxford, [England] :berghahn,2015.©20151 online resource (214 p.)Max Planck Studies in Anthropology and Economy ;Volume 1Description based upon print version of record.1-78238-569-X 1-322-97455-1 Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Ritual, Economy, and the Institutions of the Base; Chapter 1 - Economy as Ritual: The Problems of Paying in Wine; Chapter 2 - Animals in the Kyrgyz Ritual Economy: Symbolic and Moral Dimensions of Economic Embedding; Chapter 3 - From Pig-Sticking to Festival: Changes in Pig-Sticking Practices in the Hungarian Countryside; Chapter 4 - Kurban: Shifting Economy and the Transformations of a Ritual; Chapter 5 - The Trader's Wedding: Ritual Inflation and Money Gifts in TransylvaniaChapter 6 - ""We don't have work. We just grow a little tobacco."": Household Economy and Ritual Effervescence in a Macedonian TownAppendix: The ""Economy and Ritual"" Project and the Field Questionnaire; Contributors; Index 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 mucMax Planck Studies in Anthropology and EconomyEconomic anthropologyEurope, EasternCase studiesEconomic anthropologyFormer Soviet republicsCase studiesRites and ceremoniesEconomic aspectsEurope, EasternCase studiesRites and ceremoniesEconomic aspectsFormer Soviet republicsCase studiesPost-communismSocial aspectsEurope, EasternCase studiesPost-communismSocial aspectsFormer Soviet republicsCase studiesEurope, EasternSocial life and customsCase studiesFormer Soviet republicsSocial life and customsCase studiesElectronic books.Economic anthropologyEconomic anthropologyRites and ceremoniesEconomic aspectsRites and ceremoniesEconomic aspectsPost-communismSocial aspectsPost-communismSocial aspects306.3Gudeman StephenHann C. M.1953-MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910463726803321Economy and ritual1948481UNINA