TY  - CHAP
AB  - Ritual economy is a theoretical approach for understanding and explaining the ways in which worldview, economy, power, and human agency interlink in society and social change. Defined as the “process of provisioning and consuming that materializes and substantiates worldview for managing meaning and shaping interpretation,” this approach forefronts the study of human engagement with social, material, and cognitive realms of human experience. This chapter explores the theoretical roots of ritual economy and how they are expressed in this volume's contributions, which ground the discussion in actual case studies applied to both capitalistic and noncapitalistic settings across a number of different cultural contexts. By knitting together two realms of inquiry that often are sequestered into separate domains of knowledge, ritual economy exposes for analysis how the process of materializing worldview through ritual practice structures economic behavior without determining it.
VL  - 27
SN  - 978-1-84950-546-8, 978-0-7623-1485-0/0190-1281
DO  - 10.1016/S0190-1281(08)00001-2
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1016/S0190-1281(08)00001-2
AU  - McAnany Patricia A.
AU  - Christian Wells E.
ED  - E. Christian Wells
ED  - Patricia A. McAnany
PY  - 2008
Y1  - 2008/01/01
TI  - Toward a theory of ritual economy
T2  - Dimensions of Ritual Economy
T3  - Research in Economic Anthropology
PB  - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
SP  - 1
EP  - 16
Y2  - 2024/04/16
ER  -