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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 muc

Economic anthropology --- Rites and ceremonies --- Post-communism --- Ceremonies --- Cult --- Cultus --- Ecclesiastical rites and ceremonies --- Religious ceremonies --- Religious rites --- Rites of passage --- Traditions --- Ritualism --- Manners and customs --- Mysteries, Religious --- Ritual --- Commerce, Primitive --- Economics, Primitive --- Economics --- Ethnology --- Postcommunism --- World politics --- Communism --- Economic aspects --- Social aspects --- Europe, Eastern --- Former Soviet republics --- CIS countries --- Commonwealth of Independent States countries --- Ex-Soviet republics --- Ex-Soviet states --- Former Soviet states --- New Independent States (Former Soviet republics) --- Newly Independent States (Former Soviet republics) --- NIS (Former Soviet republics) --- East Europe --- Eastern Europe --- Social life and customs --- Anthropologie économique --- Rites et cérémonies --- Postcommunisme --- Case studies --- Etudes de cas --- Aspect économique --- Aspect social --- Europe de l'Est --- Ex-URSS --- Moeurs et coutumes