@article{fdi:010079420,
  title = {{R}ethinking saving : {I}ndian ceremonial gifts as relational and reproductive saving},
  author = {{G}u{\'e}rin, {I}sabelle and {V}enkatasubramanian, {G}. and {K}umar, {S}.},
  editor = {},
  language = {{ENG}},
  abstract = {{E}conomic anthropology has long advocated a broader vision of savings than that proposed by economists. {T}his article extends this redefinitional effort by examining ceremonial gifts in {I}ndia and arguing that they are a specific form of savings. {R}ural households, including those at the bottom of the pyramid, do save, in the sense of storing, accumulating and circulating value. {B}ut this takes place via particular forms of mediation that allow savers to forge or maintain social and emotional relations, to keep control over value - what matters in people's lives - and over spaces and their own future. {W}e propose terming these practicesrelational and reproductive saving, insofar as their main objective is to sustain life across generations. {B}y contrast, trying to encourage saving via bank mediation may dispossess populations of control over their wealth, their socialisation, their territories and their time. {I}n an increasingly financialised world of evermore aggressive policies to push people into financial inclusion, the social, symbolic, cultural and political aspects of diverse forms of financial mediation deserve our full attention.},
  keywords = {{F}inancial inclusion ; saving ; {I}ndia ; social relations ; emotion ; social reproduction ; {INDE}},
  booktitle = {},
  journal = {{J}ournal of {C}ultural {E}conomy},
  volume = {13},
  numero = {4},
  pages = {387--401},
  ISSN = {1753-0350},
  year = {2020},
  DOI = {10.1080/17530350.2019.1583594},
  URL = {https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010079420},
}