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Book SynopsisIncreasingly, economists have acknowledged that a major limitation to economic theory has been its failure to incorporate human values and beliefs as motivational factors. This book explores how values and beliefs structure the dual processes of provisioning and consuming.
Table of ContentsToward a theory of ritual economy. Liturgical forms of economic allocations. Crafting the sacred: Ritual places and paraphernalia in small-scale societies. The political ecology of ritual feasting. Ritual economy among the Nahua of Northern Veracruz, Mexico. Weaving ritual and the production of commemorative cloth in Highland Guatemala. "Desires of the heart" and laws of the marketplace: Money and poetics, past and present, in highland Madagascar. Environmental worldview and ritual economy among the Honduran Lenca. Shaping social difference: Political and ritual economy of Classic Maya royal courts. Gifting the children: Ritual economy of a community school. Considerations of ritual economy.
