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Economy and Ritual Studies of Postsocialist Transformations [Hardcover]

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  • Category: Books (Social Science)
  • ISBN-10:  178238569X
  • ISBN-10:  178238569X
  • ISBN-13:  9781782385691
  • ISBN-13:  9781782385691
  • Publisher:  Berghahn Books
  • Publisher:  Berghahn Books
  • Pages:  214
  • Pages:  214
  • Binding:  Hardcover
  • Binding:  Hardcover
  • Pub Date:  01-Jun-2015
  • Pub Date:  01-Jun-2015
  • SKU:  178238569X-11-MPOD
  • SKU:  178238569X-11-MPOD
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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 peoples economic life takes place outside markets and hinges on ritual, understood as the negation of the everyday world ofeconomising.

Stephen Gudeman, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Minnesota, has undertaken fieldwork in several countries of Latin America. During 2008-2012 he was co-director of the Economy and Ritual project at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle. Gudeman has published extensively in journals and written or edited eight books, the most recent of which areEconomys Tension(2008) andEconomic Persuasions(2009).

Chris Hannis 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 ofEconomic Anthropology. History, Ethnography, Critique(2011) and co-editor ofMarket and Society: The Great Transformation Today(2009).

The result of these six ethnographies is a compelling case for attention to the ritual aspects of the economy and the economic aspects of ritual. But this is a revelation that anthropologists are completely pl�4