Abstract
The house money is a manner of naming, separating, and mobilizing monetary values that expresses a practical-valuative nexus from which people, houses, relations, and money are mutually constituted. The text is based on ethnographic research conducted in a Rio de Janeiro favela, in the Complexo do Alemão, and starts from analyzing different categories of money to think about the imbrications between relationality and economy. The certain money, big and small, of men and women, are transitory states situated in broader processes of transits and conversions that involve materialities (houses, food, banknotes, coins), moralities (linked to proximity and gender), and specific languages and imaginations (of kinship, of quantities). The article explores theoretically the mutual affectations between the anthropologies of relationality and personhood and social studies on money.
Keywords:
money; house; gender; relatedness