Sansi-Roca, Roger, ed. 2013. Economies of Relation, Money and Personalism in the Lusophone World. Darthmouth Massachussets: Tagus Press UMass -Dartmouth. ISBN 9781933227146 [Edited Book]

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A collection of provocative and insightful essays on the representations of money in Brazil and the Lusophone world

“Money does not bring happiness.” For Roberto Da Matta, in Carnivals, Rogues, and Heroes (1979), this saying embodies the ambivalence surrounding money in Brazil, a legacy of a Lusophone cultural tradition that privileges personal relationships over impersonal commodified exchange. This volume of Portuguese Literary and Cultural Studies questions this tradition from the perspective of different disciplines. Does money stand in contrast to personal relations? And, if so, is this really particular to Lusophone or, more widely, Latin cultures—as opposed to, say, Anglo-American cultures or Protestantism generally? This book will be of interest to scholars in anthropology, history, literary criticism and Luso-Brazilian studies.

Item Type:	Edited Book
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Anthropology
Date:	2013
Item ID:	9154
Date Deposited:	09 Jan 2015 13:41
Last Modified:	29 Apr 2020 16:05
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/9154

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