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Dimensions of ritual economy

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Dimensions of ritual economy/ edited by E. Christian Wells, PatriciaA. McAnany.
other author:	Wells, E. Christian.
Published:	Bingley, U.K. :Emerald, : 2008.,
Description:	1 online resource (viii, 277 p.).
Subject:	Business & Economics - Economics -
Online resource:	http://www.emeraldinsight.com/0190-1281/27
ISBN:	9781849505468 (electronic bk.)

Dimensions of ritual economy
Dimensions of ritual economy[electronic resource] /edited by E. Christian Wells, PatriciaA. McAnany. - Bingley, U.K. :Emerald,2008. - 1 online resource (viii, 277 p.). - Research in economic anthropology,v. 270190-1281 ;. - Research in economic anthropology ;v. 22..

Toward a theory of ritual economy / Patricia A. McAnany, E. Christian Wells -- Weaving ritualand 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 highlandMadagascar /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 / JohnMonaghan -- 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 andparaphernalia 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.

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 underpinningsof ritual practice are under-theorized and therefore not accessible toeconomists working on synthetic theories of human choice. This book addresses the problem by bringing together anthropologists with diverse backgrounds in the study of religion and economy to forge an analytical vocabulary that constitutes the building blocks of a theory of ritual economythe process of provisioning and consuming that materializes and substantiates worldview for managing meanings and shaping interpretations.The chapters in Part I explore how values and beliefs structure the dual processes of provisioning and consuming. Contributions to Part II consider how ritual and economic processes interlink to materialize and substantiate worldview. Chapters in Part III examine how people and institutions craft and assert worldview through ritual and economic actionto manage meaning and shape interpretation. In Part IV, Jeremy Sabloffoutlines the road ahead for developing the theory of ritual economy. By focusing on the intersection of cosmology and material transfers, thecontributors push economic theory towards a more socially informed perspective.

ISBN: 9781849505468 (electronic bk.)Subjects--Topical Terms:

809008
Business & Economics
--Economics

LC Class. No.: GN448 / .D56 2008

Dewey Class. No.: 306.3

Universal Decimal Class. No.: 392

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