Limits and ambiguities of vicinality in a neighbourhood of Salvador
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https://doi.org/10.11606/2179-0892.ra.2014.89108Keywords:
Reciprocity, social networks, vicinage, informal ownership, squatter settlements, Salvador de BahiaAbstract
In Palmeiral, a squatter settlement on the outskirts of Salvador de Bahia, to acquire and keep a house depends centrally on a social performance: one has to be seen as a respectable person who is integrated into a vicinality (a network of interrelationship and exchange of favours between families/households). However, maintaining this position may not be easy. The networks are limited in scope and prone to developing tensions and conflicts within them. On the one hand, by examining a series of day-to-day situations concerning property, I aim to show how the dynamics of vicinality have an ambiguous character and how they constitute a benefit as well as a burden for the people involved. How do they develop relations of restricted reciprocity? On the other hand, I want to criticise the way in which some works have simplified this kind of reciprocity, ignoring its complex and ambivalent nature.
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