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Author:   Catherine Alexander ,  Daniel Sosna ,  Chris Hann
Publisher:   Berghahn Books
Imprint:   Berghahn Books
Volume:   10
ISBN:  

9781800734623

ISBN 10:   180073462
Pages:   252
Publication Date:   08 April 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

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 Spalova 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

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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.

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