Dimensions of ritual economy
By: edited by E. Christian Wells, Patricia A. McAnany
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Research in economic anthropology -- v. 27
Publisher: Emerald, JAI
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Bingley, UK
Language: eng
Number of pages: 277
ISBN-13: 9780762314850
Subjects: Economic anthropology; Ceremonial exchange; Ritual
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Toward a theory of ritual economy  -- Patricia A. McAnany and E. Christian Wells; title: Liturgical forms of economic allocations  -- John Monaghan; title: Crafting the sacred : ritual place and paraphernalia in small-scale societies  -- Katherine A. Spielmann; title: The political ecology of ritual feasting  -- E. Paul Durrenberger; title: Ritual economy among the Nahua of Northern Veracruz, Mexico  -- Alan R. Sandstrom; title: Weaving ritual and the production of commemorative cloth in highland Guatemala  -- Walter E. Little; title: Desires of the heart and laws of the marketplace : money and poetics, past and present in highland Madagascar  -- Susan M. Kus and Victor Raharjaona; title: Environmental worldview and ritual economy among the Honduran Lenca  -- E. Christian Wells and Karla L. Davis-Salazar; title: Shaping social difference : political and ritual economy of classic Maya royal courts  -- Patricia A. McAnany; title: Gifting the children : ritual economy of a community school  -- Rhonda H. Halperin; title: Considerations of ritual economy -- Jeremy A. Sabloff.