@inbook{560949d6a0044852bc4def35b4596d6e,
title = "Wages, patronage and welfare: Thrift and its limits in Argentina{\textquoteright}s Gran Chaco",
abstract = "In Argentina{\textquoteright}s Gran Chaco, Indigenous Guaran{\'i} households ensure their subsistence through the skillful management of wages, patronage, and welfare. This chapter explores the extent to which thrift and anti-thrift characterize Guaran{\'i} engagements with resource flows. In a context marked by unemployment and a dwindling frontier economy, the chapter shows the gendered social relations through which resources are elicited, sourced, managed and spent. The Guaran{\'i} case demonstrates how the boundaries between thrift and anti-thrift are blurred in everyday life and illustrates how the different scales and temporalities of resource flows articulate households, settlements, extractive economies, and democratic politics.",
keywords = "households, gender, work, anti-thrift, abundance, mutuality, scale",
author = "Agustin Diz",
year = "2022",
month = apr,
day = "8",
language = "English",
isbn = "9781800734623",
series = "Max Planck Studies in Anthropology and Economy",
publisher = "Berghahn Books",
pages = "74--93",
editor = "Catherine Alexander and Daniel Sosna",
booktitle = "Thrift and its Paradoxes",
}