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Thrift and its Paradoxes From Domestic to Political Economy

Alexander Catherine Sosna Daniel
Innbundet / 2022 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9781800734623
Publisert
2022-03-01
Utgiver
Berghahn Books
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
UU, UP, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
252

Redaktør
Alexander Catherine
Sosna Daniel
Etterord av
Hann Chris

Biografisk notat

Catherine Alexander is Professor of Anthropology at Durham University. Drawing on fieldwork in Turkey, Kazakhstan and Britain, she has written widely on economic anthropology and material culture including households, recycling and waste. Daniel Sosna is a senior researcher in the Department of Ecological Anthropology, Institute of Ethnology, Czech Academy of Sciences. Sosna is a specialist on ethnographic and archaeological research of waste regimes with a regional focus on Central Europe. He co-edited the book Archaeologies of Waste: Encounters with the Unwanted (Oxbow Books, 2017).

Thrift and its Paradoxes From Domestic to Political Economy

Alexander Catherine Sosna Daniel
Innbundet / 2022 / Engelsk
Alexander Catherine Sosna Daniel
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“This is an exciting and theoretically innovative volume… It presents a collection of richly ethnographic, well-written chapters from across the globe which re-consider thrift – as a category of social, material, and economic action – in the light of contemporary ethnographic research and theory.” Nicolette Makovicky, University of Oxford

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.
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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.
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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
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“This is an exciting and theoretically innovative volume… It presents a collection of richly ethnographic, well-written chapters from across the globe which re-consider thrift – as a category of social, material, and economic action – in the light of contemporary ethnographic research and theory.” Nicolette Makovicky, University of Oxford

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.
Les mer
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.
Les mer
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
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781800734623
Publisert
2022-03-01
Utgiver
Berghahn Books
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
UU, UP, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
252

Redaktør
Alexander Catherine
Sosna Daniel
Etterord av
Hann Chris

Biografisk notat

Catherine Alexander is Professor of Anthropology at Durham University. Drawing on fieldwork in Turkey, Kazakhstan and Britain, she has written widely on economic anthropology and material culture including households, recycling and waste. Daniel Sosna is a senior researcher in the Department of Ecological Anthropology, Institute of Ethnology, Czech Academy of Sciences. Sosna is a specialist on ethnographic and archaeological research of waste regimes with a regional focus on Central Europe. He co-edited the book Archaeologies of Waste: Encounters with the Unwanted (Oxbow Books, 2017).

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