Thrift and Its Paradoxes : : From Domestic to Political Economy / / 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 wastef...
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| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Max Planck Studies in Anthropology and Economy ;
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Table of Contents:
- 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