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// Portuguese Literary & Cultural Studies 17. Economies of Relation: Money and Personalism in the Lusophone World Guest Editor: Roger Sansi-Roca, King's College, London

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Call for Papers:

Portuguese Literary & Cultural Studies.
Volume 17. Economies of Relation: Money and Personalism in the Lusophone World.
Guest Editor: Roger Sansi-Roca, King's College, London

"Money does not bring happiness." For Roberto Da Matta (Carnivals, Rogues, and Heroes, 1979), this saying embodies the suspiciousreputation attributed tomoney in Brazil, a legacyof a lusophone cultural tradition that privileges personal relationships over impersonal commodifiedexchange. The objective of the proposedcollective volume is to question this tradition.Does money stand in contradictionto personal relations? And,if so, is this really particular tothe lusophone or more widely, Latin cultures as opposed to, say, Protestantism or Anglo-American cultures?

We are looking for contributions from all areasof cultural studies, from literature to history to the social sciences, from critical discourses on money in lusophone literatures, to historical discussions of commerce and culture in thePortuguese colonial world to arguments on currency change and crises of national identity in contemporary lusophone countries to conflictive relationships between religious values and economic values.

Prospective contributors: please send preliminary proposalsto Guest Editor Roger Sansi-Roca at: roger.sansi-roca@kcl.ac.uk
Deadline for finalsubmission: December 1, 2006. Preferred languages: English and,exceptionally, Portuguese or Spanish.

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