Thrift and Its Paradoxes

From Domestic to Political Economy

234 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Reihe: Max Planck Studies in Anthropology and Economy
• Themen: Gesellschaft und Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie und Anthropologie Anthropologie Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie, Ethnographie
• ISBN: 9781800734623
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 08.04.2022
• Größe: 235 x 157 mm
• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Herausgegeben von: Catherine Alexander, Daniel Sosna