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.
| ISBN: | 9781800734623 |
| Publication date: | 8th April 2022 |
| Author: | Catherine Alexander, Daniel Sosna |
| Publisher: | Berghahn Books |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 252 pages |
| Series: | Max Planck Studies in Anthropology and Economy |
| Genres: |
Social and cultural anthropology Monetary economics Political economy |
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.
Thrift and Its Paradoxes features in the following genres: Social and cultural anthropology, Monetary economics, Political economy
Thrift and Its Paradoxes is available in Hardback
Thrift and Its Paradoxes was written by Catherine Alexander, Daniel Sosna and published by Berghahn Books
Thrift and Its Paradoxes has 252 pages
Yes it is part of Max Planck Studies in Anthropology and Economy series
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