ISBN:
9781800734630
Language:
Undetermined
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (252 p)
Edition:
1st edition
Series Statement:
Max Planck Studies in Anthropology and Economy 10
Abstract:
Thrift is a central concern for most people, especially in turbulent economic times. It is both an economic and an ethical logic of frugal living, saving and avoiding waste for long-term kin care. These logics echo the ancient ideal of household self-sufficiency, contrasting with capitalism's wasteful present-focused growth. But thrift now exceeds domestic matters straying across scales to justify public expenditure cuts. Through a wide range of ethnographic contexts this book explores how practices and moralities of thrift are intertwined with austerity, debt, welfare, and patronage across various social and temporal scales and are constantly re-negotiated at the nexus of socio-economic, religious, and kinship ideals and praxis
Description / Table of Contents:
List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Thrift, Anti-thrift, Scale, and Paradox -- Catherine Alexander and Daniel Sosna -- Chapter 1. Making Savings -- Stephen Gudeman -- Chapter 2. Saving, Investment, Thrift? Welfare Beneficiary Households and Borrowing in South Africa -- Deborah James, David Neves, and Erin Torkelson -- Chapter 3. Wages, Patronage, and Welfare: Thrift and its Limits in Argentina's Gran Chaco -- Agustin Diz -- Chapter 4. Generous Thrift: Post-Pastoral Cooperation and Fortune-making among the Torghut of Mongolia -- Tomasz Rakowski -- Chapter 5. Discretio and the Golden Mean: Working Out Frugality and Thrift in Two Czech Post-Socialist Monasteries -- Barbora Spalová -- Chapter 6. Regimes of Asceticism: Austerity and Thrift in a Spiritual Economy -- Daromir Rudnyckyj -- Chapter 7. Saving and Wasting: The Paradox of Thrift in a Czech Landfill -- Daniel Sosna -- Chapter 8. Thrift and its Opposites -- Richard Wilk -- Afterword -- Chris Hann -- Index
Note:
Zielgruppe: Professional and scholarly
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