This paper uses the concept of `cutting the network’ derived from the work of Marilyn Strathern to examine the relationship between two kinds of social network, that of kinship and the system of friends constructed on so...
This article provides an ethnographic analysis of lessons given by an Amazonian Indian elder called Txema concerning transactions of objects and images. Txema has lived until 1978 in the Amazon as a hunter and farmer in...
The objective of this study is to investigate the appropriation of digital technologies in processes of identity elaboration and sociability in a group of poor urban workers living in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The article...
The pop movement appeared in industrial Western societies as a manifestation of the urban youth culture. It is frequently associated with the worldwide behavioral revolution of the sixties. Part of the youth population u...
In 2009, I conducted fieldwork about the culinary practices of Brazilian immigrants in Greater Boston, USA. I assume that food is a good way to understand the migration process, because it is related to the construction...
Should You Accept a Friends Request From Your Mother? And Other Filipino Dilemmas
This paper uses the concept of `cutting the network’ derived from the work of Marilyn Strathern to examine the relationship between two kinds of social network, that of kinship and the system of friends constructed on so...
Amazonian Exchanges: Txema’s Lessons With Outboard Engines, Mosquito Nets and Images
This article provides an ethnographic analysis of lessons given by an Amazonian Indian elder called Txema concerning transactions of objects and images. Txema has lived until 1978 in the Amazon as a hunter and farmer in...
Juvenile Sociability, Cultural Classifications and ‘Tastes’: A Study on the Universe of Games and Social Networks in Lower Class LAN House
The objective of this study is to investigate the appropriation of digital technologies in processes of identity elaboration and sociability in a group of poor urban workers living in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The article...
The Configuration of ‘Young’ Spaces in Brasil in the late 1960’s: Pop Domesticity Through the Perspective of the Magazine Casa & Jardim
The pop movement appeared in industrial Western societies as a manifestation of the urban youth culture. It is frequently associated with the worldwide behavioral revolution of the sixties. Part of the youth population u...
Circulating Food and Relationships: the Movement of Food (and Other Things) Between Brazilians in Boston and Brazil
In 2009, I conducted fieldwork about the culinary practices of Brazilian immigrants in Greater Boston, USA. I assume that food is a good way to understand the migration process, because it is related to the construction...