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.
| ISBN: | 9781933227146 |
| Publication date: | 30th March 2013 |
| Author: | Roger SansiRoca |
| Publisher: | Tagus Press an imprint of University of Massachusetts Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 443 pages |
| Series: | Portuguese Cultural and Literary Series |
| Genres: |
Social and cultural anthropology Literary studies: general Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers Social and ethical issues |