Neviditeľné základy dôvery. Domáca produkcia, práca a výmena na slovenskej dedine
The invisible bases of trust. Household production, work and exchange in Slovakian village

Summary/Abstract: The paper deals with the economic and social use that villagers make of small household plots and gardens. Building on the well-established discussion on household production, which has its roots in economic anthropology in the application of Chayanov`s model of a peasant economy, the paper demonstrates two points. First, that family land is used in a way that creates and maintains solid ties between kin members by imposing mutuality, reciprocity, task sharing and trust. Second, it is misleading to consider the household as the basic unit of consumption and production. Analysis of patterns of villages` interaction reveals that household plots are used both for domestic consumption and market purposes.

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