Pity the rich man
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2248223 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Wig (0000-0003-0278-0322, corresponding author), Ståle Wig |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 10-12 |
| Publication date | 2024-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Anthropology Today (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0268-540X • E-ISSN: 1467-8322 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1467-8322.12892 |
| OpenAlex | W4399296917 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 21 |
Across the world, economically marginalized people employ inventive strategies to encourage pedestrians to part with small sums of money by offering goods or services rather than directly requesting cash. People who use drugs wander urban streets selling magazines that some will buy but few will read. The homeless clean car windows that need no cleaning or provide token items instead of requesting donations because asking for money is contentious to the extent that selling stuff is not. Surveying existing ethnographic research, this article explores why. I analyse how informal income-generating practices adapt to the cultural assumptions of majority populations, including the notion that adults should become valuable through gainful employment and the idea that the unreturned gift humiliates givers and receivers
Art · Literature · Pity · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · History · Philosophy
The London Spikes Controversy
Marcel Mauss
The Gift
Regulating social space
The Political Economy of the Street and its Discontents
A Study on Begging
Begging as work
The hopeful labour of begging - Homeless people's struggles for a better life in Paris
Beggar Bosses on the Streets of Dhaka
Austere Kindness or Mindless Austerity
Toward An Anthropological Theory of Value
Not Miser Not Monk
Contractual dependencies
Anthropology and the inchoate intimacies of power
Declarations of dependence
A free gift makes no friends
Labour, laziness and distribution
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |