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

Gudeman, Stephen, ca. 20./21. Jh. [Hrsg.] ; Hann, Chris, 1953- [Hrsg.]

New York, NY : Berghahn Books, 2015

1 Online-Ressource (vi, 204 S.)

Englisch

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 Transylvania

Chapter 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

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Print version: Economy and Ritual : Studies in Postsocialist Transformations

978-1-78238-570-7

978-1-78238-569-1 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

978-1-78238-570-7 ( : 100.89 (3U))

GN449.8

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Economic anthropology ; Europe, Eastern ; Case studies ; Economic anthropology ; Former Soviet republics ; Case studies ; Europe, Eastern ; Social life and customs ; Case studies ; Post-communism ; Social aspects ; Europe, Eastern ; Case studies ; Post-communism ; Social aspects ; Former Soviet republics ; Case studies ; Rites and ceremonies ; Economic aspects ; Europe, Eastern ; Case studies ; Rites and ceremonies ; Economic aspects ; Former Soviet republics ; Case studies ; Electronic books

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 muc