{"product_id":"thrift-and-its-paradoxes-from-domestic-to-political-economy-9781800734623","title":"Thrift and Its Paradoxes: From Domestic to","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tThrift 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“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.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• Nicolette Makovicky\u003c\/strong\u003e, University of Oxford\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e \tAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eIntroduction:\u003c\/strong\u003e Thrift, Anti-thrift, Scale, and Paradox\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eCatherine Alexander and Daniel Sosna\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 1.\u003c\/strong\u003e Making Savings\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eStephen Gudeman\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 2.\u003c\/strong\u003e Saving, Investment, Thrift? Welfare Beneficiary Households and Borrowing in South Africa\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eDeborah James, David Neves, and Erin Torkelson\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 3.\u003c\/strong\u003e Wages, Patronage, and Welfare: Thrift and its Limits in Argentina’s Gran Chaco\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eAgustin Diz\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 4.\u003c\/strong\u003e Generous Thrift: Post-Pastoral Cooperation and Fortune-making among the Torghut of Mongolia\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eTomasz Rakowski\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 5.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eDiscretio\u003c\/em\u003e and the Golden Mean: Working Out Frugality and Thrift in Two Czech Post-Socialist Monasteries\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eBarbora Spalová\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 6.\u003c\/strong\u003e Regimes of Asceticism: Austerity and Thrift in a Spiritual Economy\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eDaromir Rudnyckyj\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 7.\u003c\/strong\u003e Saving and Wasting: The Paradox of Thrift in a Czech Landfill\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eDaniel Sosna\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 8.\u003c\/strong\u003e Thrift and its Opposites\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eRichard Wilk\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eAfterword\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eChris Hann\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berghahn Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042745647447,"sku":"9781800734623","price":89.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781800734623.jpg?v=1750955442","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/thrift-and-its-paradoxes-from-domestic-to-political-economy-9781800734623","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}