1. Comments.
- Author
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Souchou, Yao
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ECONOMICS , *CULTURAL fusion , *CONSUMPTION (Economics) , *CAPITALISM , *RITUALISM , *SOCIOLOGY , *RITUAL - Abstract
The author comments on Mayfair Mei-hui Yang's article on economic hybridity, ritual expenditures and Georges Bataille's concept of "general economy." He states that Yang's paper has unsettled the dominant productivity stance which considered to be one of the major orthodoxies of economic anthropology. He asserts that Yang has offered a sobering reflection about the nature of global capitalism and on the current fascination in management-school circles with the phenomenon of the so-called Confucian capitalism.
- Published
- 2000