Things of the House

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.

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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



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Index