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SYMPTOMS OF ANOTHER LIFE: Time, Possibility, and Domestic Relations in Chile's Credit Economy

2011; Wiley; Volume: 26; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1111/j.1548-1360.2010.01078.x

1548-1360

Clara Han,

Homelessness and Social Issues

Cultural AnthropologyVolume 26, Issue 1 p. 7-32 SYMPTOMS OF ANOTHER LIFE: Time, Possibility, and Domestic Relations in Chile's Credit Economy CLARA HAN, CLARA HAN Johns Hopkins UniversitySearch for more papers by this author CLARA HAN, CLARA HAN Johns Hopkins UniversitySearch for more papers by this author First published: 03 February 2011 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1548-1360.2010.01078.xCitations: 95Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL ABSTRACT In this article, I explore the synergy and disjunctures of the consumer credit system and care for the mentally ill and addicted in the lifeworlds of the urban poor in Santiago, Chile. In Chile, the expansion of the credit system has had a double-edged effect on the poor. Although it produces perpetual indebtedness, it also is a resource amid unstable labor. Following an extended family over several years, this article examines how women take up credit through a wider field of domestic relations and institutions to care for kin with mental illness and addiction within the home. Such gestures of care enact a temporality of waiting, allowing different, but unpredictable, aspects of others to emerge. 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