Stephen (Hrsg.) Gudeman

Economy and Ritual

Studies in Postsocialist Transformations

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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 much of what is critical for a people's economic life… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Hann, Chris (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-1-78533-519-8
EAN: 9781785335198
Produktnummer: 21429506
Verlag: Berghahn Books
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
Seitenangabe: 216 S.
Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D1.1 cm 321 g
Abbildungen: Paperback
Gewicht: 321

Über den Autor

Chris Hann is a Founding Director of the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology at Halle. He formerly taught anthropology at the Universities of Cambridge and Kent (Canterbury). Hann is co-author of Economic Anthropology. History, Ethnography, Critique (2011) and co-editor of Market and Society: The Great Transformation Today (2009).