Thrift and Its Paradoxes : : From Domestic to Political Economy / / ed. by Daniel Sosna, Catherine Alexander.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2022
• MitwirkendeR: Alexander, Catherine,; Diz, Agustin,; James, Deborah,; Neves, David,; Rakowski, Tomasz,; Rudnyckyj, Daromir,; Sosna, Daniel,; Spalová, Barbora,; Torkelson, Erin,; Wilk, Richard,
• HerausgeberIn: Gudeman, Stephen,; Hann, Chris,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Max Planck Studies in Anthropology and Economy ; 10
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (252 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Illustrations --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction Thrift, Antithrift, Scale, and Paradox --; Chapter 1. Making Savings --; Chapter 2. Saving, Investment, Th rift? Welfare Beneficiary Households and Borrowing in South Africa --; Chapter 3. Wages, Patronage, and Welfare: Th rift and Its Limits in Argentina’s Gran Chaco --; Chapter 4. Generous Thrift: Postpastoral Cooperation and Fortune-Making among the Torghut of Mongolia --; Chapter 5. Discretio and the Golden Mean: Working Out Frugality and Th rift in Two Czech Postsocialist Monasteries --; Chapter 6. Regimes of Asceticism: Austerity and Thrift in a Spiritual Economy --; Chapter 7. Saving and Wasting: The Paradox of Thrift in a Czech Landfill --; Chapter 8. Thrift and Its Opposites --; Afterword --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781800734630; 9783110997668
• DOI: 10.1515/9781800734630
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Daniel Sosna, Catherine Alexander.

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.