
Dimensions of Ritual Economy
Patricia Ann McAnany(Editor)
JAI Press Inc.
Published on 5. May 2008
Book
Hardback
286 pages
978-0-7623-1485-0 (ISBN)
Description
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 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 action to manage meaning and shape interpretation. In Part IV, Jeremy Sabloff outlines the road ahead for developing the theory of ritual economy. By focusing on the intersection of cosmology and material transfers, the contributors push economic theory towards a more socially informed perspective.
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English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Emerald Publishing Limited
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
596 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7623-1485-0 (9780762314850)
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Toward a theory of ritual economy. Liturgical forms of economic allocations.
Crafting the sacred: Ritual places and paraphernalia in small-scale societies.
The political ecology of ritual feasting.
Ritual economy among the Nahua of Northern Veracruz, Mexico.
Weaving ritual and the production of commemorative cloth in Highland Guatemala.
"Desires of the heart" and laws of the marketplace: Money and poetics, past and present, in highland Madagascar.
Environmental worldview and ritual economy among the Honduran Lenca.
Shaping social difference: Political and ritual economy of Classic Maya royal courts.
Gifting the children: Ritual economy of a community school.
Considerations of ritual economy.
Crafting the sacred: Ritual places and paraphernalia in small-scale societies.
The political ecology of ritual feasting.
Ritual economy among the Nahua of Northern Veracruz, Mexico.
Weaving ritual and the production of commemorative cloth in Highland Guatemala.
"Desires of the heart" and laws of the marketplace: Money and poetics, past and present, in highland Madagascar.
Environmental worldview and ritual economy among the Honduran Lenca.
Shaping social difference: Political and ritual economy of Classic Maya royal courts.
Gifting the children: Ritual economy of a community school.
Considerations of ritual economy.