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Dimensions of Ritual Economy (Paperback, New)
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Dimensions of Ritual Economy (Paperback, New)
Series: Research in Economic Anthropology
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Increasingly, economists have acknowledged that a major limitation
to economic theory has been its failure to incorporate human values
and beliefs as motivational factors. Conversely, the economic
underpinnings of ritual practice are under-theorized and therefore
not accessible to economists working on synthetic theories of human
choice. This book addresses the problem by bringing together
anthropologists with diverse backgrounds in the study of religion
and economy to forge an analytical vocabulary that constitutes the
building blocks of a theory of ritual economythe process of
provisioning and consuming that materializes and substantiates
worldview for managing meanings and shaping interpretations. The
chapters in Part I explore how values and beliefs structure the
dual processes of provisioning and consuming. Contributions to Part
II consider how ritual and economic processes interlink to
materialize and substantiate worldview. Chapters in Part III
examine how people and institutions craft and assert worldview
through ritual and economic action to manage meaning and shape
interpretation. In Part IV, Jeremy Sabloff outlines the road ahead
for developing the theory of ritual economy. By focusing on the
intersection of cosmology and material transfers, the contributors
push economic theory towards a more socially informed perspective.
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