Dimensions of ritual economy

Increasingly, economists have acknowledged that a major limitation to economic theory has been its failure to incorporate human values and beliefs as motivational factors. Conversely, the economic underpinnings of ritual practice are under-theorized and therefore not accessible to economists working...

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Other Authors Wells, E. Christian, McAnany, Patricia Ann
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K. : Emerald, 2008.
SeriesResearch in economic anthropology ; v. 27.
Subjects
Economic anthropology.
Ritual > Economic aspects.
Ritual > Cross-cultural studies.
Commerce > Social aspects.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781849505468
ISSN0190-1281 ;
DOI10.1016/S0190-1281(2008)27
Physical Description1 online resource (viii, 277 p.).

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Table of Contents:
  • Toward a theory of ritual economy / Patricia A. McAnany, E. Christian Wells
  • Weaving ritual and the production of commemorative cloth in Highland Guatemala / Walter E. Little
  • "Desires of the heart" and laws of the marketplace : money and poetics, past and present, in highland Madagascar / Susan M. Kus, Victor Raharijaona
  • Environmental worldview and ritual economy among the Honduran Lenca / E. Christian Wells, Karla L. Davis-Salazar
  • Liturgical forms of economic allocations / John Monaghan
  • Shaping social difference : political and ritual economy of Classic Maya royal courts / Patricia A. McAnany
  • Gifting the children : ritual economy of a community school / Rhoda H. Halperin
  • Considerations of ritual economy / Jeremy A. Sabloff
  • Crafting the sacred : ritual places and paraphernalia in small-scale societies / Katherine A. Spielmann
  • The political ecology of ritual feasting / E. Paul Durrenberger
  • Ritual economy among the Nahua of Northern Veracruz, Mexico / Alan R. Sandstrom.

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