Things of the House

Material Culture and Migration from Post-Colonial Mozambique to Portugal

Marta Vilar Rosales (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

196 Seiten

2023
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80073-954-3 (ISBN)

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Discussing multiple aspects of material culture and domestic consumption, this book tackles the relationship between the trajectories and biographies of people, families, houses and objects and how they intertwine and produce each other. Focusing on the life stories of a group of European and Catholic Brahmin Goan families of the colonial elite who left Mozambique after the country's independence in 1975, the book shows how material culture interferes with structuring dimensions of migratory experiences, in the management of family memories, ties and networks of belonging, as well as in the social dynamics of positioning, hierarchy and distinction.

Marta Vilar Rosales is research fellow at the Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon. She has conducted ethnographic research in Angola, Mozambique, Canada, Brazil, Germany, Australia and Portugal on contemporary migrations, everyday life and material culture. She received a Fulbright Schuman Award in 2021.

List of Illustrations

Foreword

Caroline Brettell

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1. Movement, Materiality and Domestic Life: An Anthropological Approach

Chapter 2. The Portuguese Third Empire: Colonialism, Revolution and Late Decolonization

Chapter 3. Migrating to Africa: New Contexts, New Peoples, Old Social Issues

Chapter 4. Life in Colonial Mozambique: A Domestic Material Culture Approach

Chapter 5. Out of Africa: The Materiality of Loss and Displacement

Chapter 6. Life in Democratic Portugal: A Domestic Material Culture Approach

Conclusion

References

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	21.03.2023
Reihe/Serie	European Anthropology in Translation
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-80073-954-0 / 1800739540
ISBN-13	978-1-80073-954-3 / 9781800739543
Zustand	Neuware