Introduction: -- Does money bring happiness? : comparing Brazil and the United States / Ruben George Oliven -- Brazilian gold and the commercial sector in Oporto, 1710-1750 / A. J. R. Russell-Wood -- Trabalho, fortuna e mobilidade de negros, crioulos e mestiìos no Brasil do s'culo xviii / Eduardo Franìa Paiva -- Remittances, welfare solidarity and monetarisation : the interaction between personal and economic relations in Cape Verde during the colonial period / Joo EstÉvo -- State-sponsored indemnification, the materiality of money, and the meanings of community in Salvador, Brazil's pelourinho cultural heritage center / John F. Collins -- A procisso do senhor dos passos da Sapataria : Funìo economica e reorganizaìco da ordem social / Maria Margarida Paes Lobo Mascarenhas -- Coins for the dead, money on the floor : mortuary ritual in Bahian Candombl / Brian Brazeal -- Um caloteiro devoto : a contabilidade moral em dom casmurro / Bluma Waddington Vilar -- Brazilian masculine identity in Mario Prata's album-novel buscando o seu mindinho : um almanaque auricular / George Arthur Carlsen -- "Tradiìces evanescentes" : a ficcionalizaìco do discurso cientefico racialista no regionalismo literario brasileiro / Luciana Murari -- Wasting away : (de)composing trash in the contemporary Brazilian documentary / Steven F. Butterman -- Pressupostos esteticos do academicismo literario : a literatura brasileira no inocio do seculo XX / Mauricio Silva -- Rewriting carolina Maria de Jesus : editing as translating in quarto de Despejo / Frans Weiser -- Portingale to Portugee / George Monteiro -- Portuguese short takes : three storytellers in Portugal's post-revolution years / Rui Zink -- Literary abodes : Machado de Assis on interiors / Estela Vieira -- Photobook of the city : Eduardo Gageiro's Lisboa no cais da memoria / Paul Melo e Castro -- The blindness of meirelles / Alessandro Zir -- La retorica del poder : el discurso ideologico de salazar a traves de sus aforismos politicos / Alberto Pena-Rodriguez -- Review