Economy and ritual
Subtitle: studies of postsocialist transformations
By: edited by Stephen Gudeman and Chris Hann
Series: Max Planck studies in anthropology and economy -- volume 1
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9781782385691; 9781782385707
Subjects: Economic anthropology; Case studies; Rites and ceremonies; Post-communism; Social life and customs
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : ritual, economy and the institutions of the base / Stephen Gudeman and Chris Hann; title: Economy as ritual : the problems of paying in wine / Jennifer Cash; title: Animals in the Kyrgyz ritual economy : symbolic and moral dimensions of economic embedding / Nathan Light; title: From pig-sticking to festival : changes in pig-sticking practices in the Hungarian countryside / Bea Vidacs; title: Kurban : shifting economy and the transformations of a ritual / Detelina Tocheva; title: The trader's wedding : ritual inflation and money gifts in Transylvania / Monica Vasile; title: "We don't have work, we just grow a little tobacco" : household economy and ritual effervescence in a Macedonian town / Miladina Monova.