Where does sacrifice collide?

In the anthropology of religion, sacrifice is the ritual offering or destruction of something valued (an animal, food, or object) to establish or repair a relationship between people and the sacred. Evans-Pritchard's 1954 study The meaning of sacrifice among the Nuer read such rites as symbolic substitution, where the victim stands in for the giver and the act carries moral and social meaning beyond any material loss. The referent is a ritual act of consecrated giving-up, studied for its social and symbolic function, and unrelated to a chess tactic or an economic cost measure.[1]

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The ritual offering and the social or sacred relationship it enacts

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Not applicable

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Interpreted ethnographically through the rite's symbolism, substitution logic, and social function

In macroeconomics the sacrifice ratio measures how much output or employment an economy must give up to achieve a lasting reduction in inflation, usually expressed as the percentage of a year's output lost per percentage point of disinflation. Cecchetti and Rich's 2001 study Structural estimates of the U.S. sacrifice ratio estimated this cost from macro models and showed how widely the estimate depends on the model used. The referent is a quantified output cost of disinflation, unrelated to a ritual offering or a chess tactic.[2]

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Percent of output forgone per percentage-point reduction in inflation

Recovery means

Not applicable

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Estimated from the cumulative output or unemployment gap relative to the fall in inflation during a disinflation

In religious studies, sacrifice refers to a rite that links the sacred and profane worlds through the consecration and destruction of a victim. This meaning comes from Hubert (1964) in Sacrifice.[3]

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Recovery means

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