In this article we use men’s changing investments in desired material objects as a window into the changing moralities underpinning masculinities in the wake of Angola’s civil war. Drawing on participant observation and life history interviews with middle-aged men working in informal commerce in the city of Huambo, we examine the roles of land, houses, and cars in the construction of different styles of masculinity. We argue that analyzing differences among men’s investments in these objects provides useful insights into how men construct multireferential masculinities in a contested postcolonial, postwar context in which questions of gendered cultural hegemony are contentious and complex. These masculinities map onto competing, yet overlapping, sets of moral values that rework preexisting gendered cultural forms and practices to cope with the social and economic consequences of the war and to express aspirations for disparate modernities.

在本文中，我们将男性对所需物质的不断投资作为了解安​​哥拉内战后改变男性气质的道德的窗口。根据参与者对万博市从事非正式贸易的中年男子的观察和生活史访谈，我们研究了土地，房屋和汽车在建设各种男性气概中的作用。我们认为，分析男性在这些物品上的投资之间的差异可提供有用的见解，以了解男性如何在有争议的后殖民，战后环境中构建多指男性气质，在这种情况下，性别文化霸权问题是有争议且复杂的。这些男子气概映射到相互竞争但又重叠的地方，