Comments.

The author comments on Mayfair Mei-hui Yang's article on economic hybridity, ritual expenditures and Georges Bataille's concept of "general economy." She states that Yang replaces monolithic global capitalism with economic hybridity and that her article highlights instances in which a market economy has reactivated the principle of exuberant community ritual display and consumption. She raises the question on how Yang distanced her argument from the official ways of capitalist domestication and believes that popular ritual has a special place in the regional realm of histories.