Description:
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.
Brief description:
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.
Review Quotes:
"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