Thrift and its paradoxes : from domestic to political economy

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    • Alexander, Catherine
    • Sosna, Daniel
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Thrift and its paradoxes : from domestic to political economy

edited by Catherine Alexander and Daniel Sosna

(Max Planck studies in anthropology and economy / series editors, Stephen Gudeman, Chris Hann, v. 10)

Berghahn, 2022

  • : hardback

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Includes bibliographical references and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

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.

目次

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 Spalova 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

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