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...

A Place Called Supermarket

 The objective of this study is to interpret supermarket stores as privileged spaces for the observation of social relations. The article is based on an ethnography of shopping conducted in the city of Florianópolis...

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...

 Consumption and Material Culture Studies in the Global South

On Emotion and Memories: the Consumption of Mobile Phones as ‘Affective Technology

In this article, which is theoretically affiliated to studies of consumption as material culture as developed especially by Miller (1987; 2010), the goal is to analyze the consumption of mobile phones in its interaction...