Consumption and Material Culture Studies in the Global South

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...

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...

 

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...