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Thrift and Its Paradoxes
From Domestic to Political Economy
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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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Table of contents
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Thrift, Antithrift, Scale, and Paradox
- Chapter 1 — Making Savings
- Chapter 2 — Saving, Investment, Thrift? Welfare Beneficiary Households and Borrowing in South Africa
- Chapter 3 — Wages, Patronage, and Welfare: Thrift and Its Limits in Argentina’s Gran Chaco
- Chapter 4 — Generous Thrift: Postpastoral Cooperation and Fortune-Making among the Torghuts of Mongolia
- Chapter 5 — Discretio and the Golden Mean: Working Out Frugality and Thrift 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