Dimensions of Ritual Economy

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List of contributors......Page 4
Toward a theory of ritual economy......Page 6
Provisioning and consuming......Page 10
Materializing and substantiating worldview......Page 12
Managing meaning and shaping interpretation......Page 15
Acknowledgments......Page 18
References......Page 19
Liturgical forms of economic allocations......Page 22
Nuyooteco cargos and Athenian liturgies......Page 24
Cargo and liturgy: A love of honor......Page 29
Conclusion......Page 36
References......Page 38
Crafting the sacred: Ritual places and paraphernalia in small-scale societies......Page 39
Early British Neolithic......Page 42
Formalized communal ritual spaces......Page 44
Microcosms and sociograms......Page 49
Ohio Hopewell......Page 56
British Neolithic......Page 62
The sociality of ritual production......Page 66
Ethnographic ritual production: Mortuary ceremonies......Page 68
Conclusion......Page 70
References......Page 71
The political ecology of ritual feasting......Page 75
Southeast Asian highlanders......Page 78
Medieval Icelanders......Page 81
Southeast Asian states......Page 85
Conclusions......Page 89
References......Page 90
Ritual economy among the Nahua of Northern Veracruz, Mexico......Page 92
Ritual economy......Page 93
The nahua and pantheistic religion......Page 96
Ritual exchange......Page 102
The participation of non-believers......Page 105
Households and ritual utility......Page 106
Altars as seats of transaction......Page 107
The economy of ritual......Page 110
Nahua ritual economy under conditions of change......Page 112
References......Page 116
Weaving ritual and the production of commemorative cloth in Highland Guatemala......Page 119
Commemorative looms......Page 122
Social fields of Tecpán commemorative looms......Page 129
Household/Domestic Space......Page 132
Public Political Space......Page 138
Interpreting the use of commemorative looms in political space......Page 141
By way of conclusion: Historical precedence, cultural continuity, and resistance......Page 142
Notes......Page 143
References......Page 144
‘‘Desires of the heart’’ and laws of the marketplace: Money and poetics, past and present, in highland Madagascar......Page 147
States, wealth, and welfare......Page 151
‘‘Expectation of Imerina’’......Page 154
Political appropriation of symbols - A tale of a branch, bamboo, and honey......Page 156
Ritual and the innovation of political symbols - The singular, the complete, and the whole......Page 158
An easily read tale of a young entrepreneur and self-made man?......Page 160
Lively markets and the well-being of widows and orphans......Page 163
Money and markets today......Page 169
Ritual specialists, philosophy, and ‘‘bricolage’’......Page 174
Notes......Page 179
Acknowledgments......Page 180
References......Page 181
Environmental worldview and ritual economy among the Honduran Lenca......Page 184
Environmental worldview and ritual economy......Page 186
Cususa for the ancestors......Page 189
Compostura in context: Prehispanic Agrarian ritual in the Naco Valley......Page 195
Conclusion......Page 205
References......Page 207
Shaping social difference: political and ritual economy of Classic Maya royal courts......Page 213
Social difference embodied......Page 216
Sculpting social difference......Page 222
Materializing difference through palace artisanship......Page 226
Ritual assaults on social difference......Page 233
Implications for ritual economy......Page 235
Acknowledgments......Page 236
References......Page 237
Gifting the children: Ritual economy of a community school......Page 242
The gift and gifting......Page 246
Ritual kinship, practical kinship, and gifting the children......Page 247
Gifting and the informal economy as sources and forms of provisioning (‘‘householding’’)......Page 249
When gifting does not work......Page 252
The costs and nuances of gifting......Page 253
Post-script: Forging analytical vocabularies......Page 256
References......Page 257
Considerations of ritual economy......Page 260
References......Page 267