An innovative contribution to the thinking about economic anthropology. The ethnographies illiuminate economic and ritual changes in countries emerging from socialism and re-entering market society. Pioneering investigations of transformations of the domestic economy in postsocialist conditions Reappraisal of the basic meaning of economy as a separate domain of human activity Simultaneous reappraisal of the basic meaning of the concept "ritual
An innovative contribution to the thinking about economic anthropology. The ethnographies illiuminate economic and ritual changes in countries emerging from socialism and re-entering market society. Pioneering investigations of transformations of the domestic economy in postsocialist conditions Reappraisal of the basic meaning of economy as a separate domain of human activity Simultaneous reappraisal of the basic meaning of the concept "ritual
Chris Hann is 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 of Economic Anthropology. History, Ethnography, Critique (2011) and co-editor of Market and Society: The Great Transformation Today (2009).
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List of Illustrations Introduction: Ritual, Economy and the Institutions of the Base Stephen Gudeman and Chris Hann Chapter 1. Economy as Ritual: The Problems of Paying in Wine Jennifer Cash Chapter 2. Animals in the Kyrgyz Ritual Economy: Symbolic and Moral Dimensions of Economic Embedding Nathan Light Chapter 3. From Pig-Sticking to Festival: Changes in Pig-Sticking Practices in the Hungarian Countryside Bea Vidacs Chapter 4. Kurban: Shifting Economy and the Transformations of a Ritual Detelina Tocheva Chapter 5. The Trader's Wedding: Ritual Inflation and Money Gifts in Transylvania Monica Vasile Chapter 6. "We don't have work. We just grow a little tobacco": Household Economy and Ritual Effervescence in a Macedonian Town Miladina Monova Appendix: The "Economy and Ritual" Project and the Field Questionnaire Notes on Contributors Index
List of Illustrations Introduction: Ritual, Economy and the Institutions of the Base Stephen Gudeman and Chris Hann Chapter 1. Economy as Ritual: The Problems of Paying in Wine Jennifer Cash Chapter 2. Animals in the Kyrgyz Ritual Economy: Symbolic and Moral Dimensions of Economic Embedding Nathan Light Chapter 3. From Pig-Sticking to Festival: Changes in Pig-Sticking Practices in the Hungarian Countryside Bea Vidacs Chapter 4. Kurban: Shifting Economy and the Transformations of a Ritual Detelina Tocheva Chapter 5. The Trader's Wedding: Ritual Inflation and Money Gifts in Transylvania Monica Vasile Chapter 6. "We don't have work. We just grow a little tobacco": Household Economy and Ritual Effervescence in a Macedonian Town Miladina Monova Appendix: The "Economy and Ritual" Project and the Field Questionnaire Notes on Contributors Index
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