Economy and Ritual

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

Economics · Economy · Religion and Society Interactions · Case studies · Eastern · Eastern Europe · Economic anthropology · Economic conditions · Europe · Former Soviet republics · Post-communism · rites and ceremonies · Social life and customs

• Exhuming Bodies

  Leslie Bank, Vuyokazi Nelly Sharpley et al.•Covid and Custom in Rural South…•2022

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• Honorer ses morts en socialisme, une économie de l’islam kazakh (1960-1980)

  Open Access•Isabelle Ohayon•Revue des mondes musulmans et de…•2019

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• Covid and Custom in Rural South Africa

  Leslie Bank, Vuyokazi Nelly Sharpley et al.•Covid and Custom in Rural South…•2022

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• Markets at sacred sites

  Yulia Antonyan•Central Asian Survey•2020

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• Embeddedness and Effervescence

  Chris Hann•Ethnologie française•2017

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