Description
Book Synopsis Discussing multiple aspects of material culture and domestic consumption, this book tackles the relationship between the trajectories and biographies of people, families, houses and objects and how they intertwine and produce each other. Focusing on the life stories of a group of European and Catholic Brahmin Goan families of the colonial elite who left Mozambique after the country's independence in 1975, the book shows how material culture interferes with structuring dimensions of migratory experiences, in the management of family memories, ties and networks of belonging, as well as in the social dynamics of positioning, hierarchy and distinction.
Table of Contents List of Illustrations
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
References
Index
