Bibliograph

Making things better, a workbook on ritual, cultural values, and environmental behavior, A. David Napier

Type

Label

Making things better, a workbook on ritual, cultural values, and environmental behavior, A. David Napier

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Making things better

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

926505049

Responsibility statement

A. David Napier

Series statement

Oxford scholarship online.

Sub title

a workbook on ritual, cultural values, and environmental behavior

Summary

Napier demonstrates how non-Western exchange practices and beliefs can redress the ills of contemporary economic systems in which our relationship to material things transforms animate elements of social life into inanimate commodities. Such processes separate objects from domains of deep meaning and release individuals from the moral relationships on which feelings of attachment, community responsibility, and a sense of place depend

Target audience

specialized

Classification

Creator