According to accepted wisdom, rational practices and ritual action
are opposed. Rituals drain wealth from capital investment and draw
on a mode of thought different from practical ideas. The studies in
this volume contest this view. Comparative, historical, and
contemporary, the six ethnographies extend from Macedonia to
Kyrgyzstan. Each one illuminates the economic and ritual changes in
an area as it emerged from socialism and (re-)entered market
society. Cutting against the idea that economy only means markets
and that market action exhausts the meaning of economy, the studies
show that much of what is critical for a people's economic life
takes place outside markets and hinges on ritual, understood as the
negation of the everyday world of economising.
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