LEADER 05166nam 2200697Ia 450 001 9910454853003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-280-77173-9 010 $a9786613682505 010 $a1-84950-546-2 035 $a(CKB)1000000000766315 035 $a(EBL)453289 035 $a(OCoLC)609843583 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000358904 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11274590 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000358904 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10378672 035 $a(PQKB)10662373 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC453289 035 $a(PPN)187303142 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL453289 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10310646 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL368250 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000766315 100 $a20080213d2008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aDimensions of ritual economy$b[electronic resource] /$fedited by E. Christian Wells, Patricia A. McAnany 210 $aBingley $cJAI$d2008 215 $a1 online resource (286 p.) 225 1 $aResearch in economic anthropology ;$vv. 27 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-78190-153-8 311 $a0-7623-1485-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $aDimensions of Ritual Economy; Copyright page; Contents; List of contributors; References; Chapter 1. Toward a theory of ritual economy; Provisioning and consuming; Materializing and substantiating worldview; Managing meaning and shaping interpretation; The challenge ahead; Acknowledgments; References; Part I: Provisioning and Consuming; Chapter 2. Liturgical forms of economic allocations; Nuyooteco cargos and Athenian liturgies; Cargo and liturgy: A love of honor; Conclusion; References; Chapter 3. Crafting the sacred: Ritual places and paraphernalia in small-scale societies; Case studies 327 $aFormalized communal ritual spaces Microcosms and sociograms; The sociality of ritual production; Ethnographic ritual production: Mortuary ceremonies; Conclusion; References; Chapter 4. The political ecology of ritual feasting; Southeast Asian highlanders; Medieval Icelanders; Southeast Asian states; Conclusions; References; Part II: Materializing and Substantiating Worldview; Chapter 5. Ritual economy among the Nahua of Northern Veracruz, Mexico; Ritual economy; The nahua and pantheistic religion; Ritual exchange; The participation of non-believers; Households and ritual utility 327 $aAltars as seats of transaction The economy of ritual; Nahua ritual economy under conditions of change; References; Chapter 6. Weaving ritual and the production of commemorative cloth in Highland Guatemala; Commemorative looms; Social fields of Tecpa?n commemorative looms; Interpreting the use of commemorative looms in political space; By way of conclusion: Historical precedence, cultural continuity, and resistance; Notes; References; Chapter 7. ''Desires of the heart'' and laws of the marketplace: Money and poetics, past and present, in highland Madagascar; States, wealth, and welfare 327 $a''Expectation of Imerina'' Political appropriation of symbols - A tale of a branch, bamboo, and honey; Ritual and the innovation of political symbols - The singular, the complete, and the whole; An easily read tale of a young entrepreneur and self-made man?; Lively markets and the well-being of widows and orphans; Money and markets today; Ritual specialists, philosophy, and ''bricolage''; Conclusion; Notes; Acknowledgments; References; Part III: Managing Meaning and Shaping Interpretation; Chapter 8. Environmental worldview and ritual economy among the Honduran Lenca 327 $aEnvironmental worldview and ritual economy Cususa for the ancestors; Compostura in context: Prehispanic Agrarian ritual in the Naco Valley; Conclusion; Acknowledgments; References; Chapter 9. Shaping social difference: political and ritual economy of Classic Maya royal courts; Social difference embodied; Sculpting social difference; Materializing difference through palace artisanship; Ritual assaults on social difference; Implications for ritual economy; Acknowledgments; References; Chapter 10. Gifting the children: Ritual economy of a community school; The gift and gifting 327 $aRitual kinship, practical kinship, and gifting the children 330 $aEconomists have acknowledged that a major limitation to economic theory has been its failure to incorporate human values and beliefs as motivational factors. This book addresses the problem by bringing together anthropologists with diverse backgrounds in 410 0$aResearch in economic anthropology ;$vv. 27. 606 $aEconomic anthropology 606 $aRitual 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aEconomic anthropology. 615 0$aRitual. 676 $a306.3 701 $aWells$b E. Christian$0991355 701 $aMcAnany$b Patricia Ann$0946953 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910454853003321 996 $aDimensions of ritual economy$92291417 997 $aUNINA