ISBN:
0762314850
,
9780762314850
Language:
English
Pages:
viii, 277 p.
Edition:
Online-Ausg. Palo Alto, Calif ebrary 2009 Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries
Series Statement:
Research in economic anthropology v. 27
Series Statement:
Research in economic anthropology
Parallel Title:
Druckausg. Dimensions of ritual economy
DDC:
306.3
Keywords:
Ritual
;
Economic anthropology
Abstract:
Economists 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
Description / Table of Contents:
Dimensions 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
Description / Table of Contents:
Formalized communal ritual spacesMicrocosms 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
Description / Table of Contents:
Altars as seats of transactionThe 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 Tecpán 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
Description / Table of Contents:
''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
Description / Table of Contents:
Environmental worldview and ritual economyCususa 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
Description / Table of Contents:
Ritual kinship, practical kinship, and gifting the children
Note:
Includes bibliographical references
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