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Making Things Better - A Workbook on Ritual, Cultural Values, and Environmental Behavior (Hardcover)
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Making Things Better - A Workbook on Ritual, Cultural Values, and Environmental Behavior (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Ritual Studies Series
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In Making Things Better, A. David Napier demonstrates how
anthropological description of non-Western exchange practices and
beliefs can be a tonic for contemporary economic systems in which
our impersonal relationship to ''things'' transforms the animate
elements of social life into inanimate sets of commodities. Such a
fundamental transformation, Napier suggests, makes us automatons in
globally integrated social circuits that generate a cast of a
winners and losers engaged in hostile competition for wealth and
power. Our impersonal relations to ''things''-and to people as
well-are so ingrained in our being, we take them for granted as we
sleepwalk through routine life. Like the surrealist artists of the
1920s who, through their art, poetry, films, and photography,
fought a valiant battle against mind-numbing conformity, Napier
provides exercises and practica designed to shock the reader from
their wakeful sleep. These demonstrate powerfully the positively
integrative social effects of more socially entangled, non-Western
orientations to ''things'' and to ''people.'' His arguments also
have implications for the rights and legal status of indigenous
peoples, which are drawn out in the course of the book.
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