Abstract Roberto DaMatta famously argues that in the Brazilian cultural universe stable moral codes buttress familial hierarchy in the house, while situational negotiations underscore egalitarian utopias in the street. In this article, I revise this analytic construct, which a priori assumes that the person of the house and the “individual” of the street are mutually exclusive social categories. Rather than polarize house and street as distinct cultural domains diametrically opposed to one another, I demonstrate ethnographically that houses in the Brazilian state of Maranhão are conceptually continuous with the street to varying degrees. I argue that moral indebtedness in both these domains locally manifests through the emotional economies of respect (respeito), by which persons/individuals introduce measures of emotional proximity or distance into various types of material exchange relations. Both men and women ultimately channel these types of relations into the space of their family houses, which thus become hubs for the circulation of core social values.

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重访大马塔

摘要 罗伯托·达马塔 (Roberto DaMatta) 著名地认为，在巴西文化世界中，稳定的道德准则支撑着家庭中的家庭等级制度，而情境谈判则强调了街道上的平等主义乌托邦。在这篇文章中，我修改了这个分析结构，它先验地假设房子里的人和街道上的“个人”是相互排斥的社会类别。我没有将房屋和街道两极分化为彼此截然相反的独特文化领域，而是从人种学上证明巴西马拉尼昂州的房屋在概念上与街道在不同程度上是连续的。我认为，这两个领域的道德债务都通过尊重的情感经济（respeito）在当地表现出来，个人/个人将情感接近或距离的度量引入各种类型的物质交换关系。男人和女人最终都会将这些类型的关系引入他们的家庭住宅空间，从而成为核心社会价值流通的枢纽。