Abstract
This chapter reveals the constant effort that goes into the stabilisation of households, demonstrating how the ties that make Calon families strong also make them vulnerable. The analysis focuses on how durable household wealth, associated with wives, and money, associated with husbands, are implicated in this process. The amount of money a man has in loans to Jurons registers his relations with others and condenses his reputation. It is related to lifecycle, in which the man’s efficacy becomes most visible in the creation of his children’s households.
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Florencia Ferrari, personal communication.
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I have not observed what happens to household wealth when a wife dies and leaves her children and husband behind. Sometimes a widow inherits her husband’s money if she does not remarry and subsequently assumes the responsibility for the household. In such a case, she moves her household to her father’s or brother’s settlement. More frequently, however, when the widow is young and her children small, she remarries; frequently, the children will be raised by her parents.
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Fotta, M. (2018). Chapter 2 Household Fixity As a Process. In: From Itinerant Trade to Moneylending in the Era of Financial Inclusion. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96409-6_3
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