Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Passive voice theories in religious sociology -- Goods as a system of communication -- Money: The contempt of ritual ; Raffia cloth distribution in the Lele economy ; Primitive rationing -- Food as a system of communication: Food studied as a system of communication ; Food as an art form ; The Food Art Exhibition ; Food is not feed -- Good taste: review of Pierre Bourdieu, La distinction -- Population control in primitive groups -- Lele economy compared with the Bushong: a study of economic backwardness -- The exclusion of economics -- Cultural bias -- Maurice Halbwachs, 1877-1945 -- Judgements on James Frazer -- The debate on the Holy: review of The making of late antiquity / by Peter Brown.