This article reflects on issues first raised in the doctoral thesis in Social Anthropology entitled “The Road is Long and the Ground is Slippery!: the hip hop movement in Florianópolis and Lisbon” (Souza 2009) and which provides ethnographic support for the reflections raised here about this vibrant v.8 n.1 angela m. de souza, deise l. montardo musical production. Rap is music that was born in ghettos and peripheries. It has become a strong reference for youth and is inserted in a variety of social, cultural and religious contexts. Reflecting on this musical production is a complex task, mainly in an attempt to create distinctions, boundaries and limits that insist on not being maintained in defined spaces. To the contrary, shifting, movement and circulation are elements of these musicalities, one of which is gospel rap. In a dialog with ethnomusicology, this article approaches this musical style, principally through discussions about “performance” and “event,” essential factors that guide the contours of what we call aesthetic-musical styles within the hip hop movement in which gospel rap is inserted.

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As experiências migratórias femininas, por ocorrerem em menor contingente, foram historicamente silenciadas. Também foram atribuídas a elas, de forma homogeneizante, a vinda para cá com o objetivo da reunião familiar – colocando-as de forma passiva diante desse fenômeno e invisibilizando a multiplicidade de suas vivências. Fundamentado na importância da perspectiva de gênero nas pesquisas sobre migrações, este trabalho propõe analisar a experiência diaspórica a partir do relato de seis mulheres haitianas estudantes da Universidade Federal da Integração Latino-Americana (Unila), cujos ingressos se deram principalmente por meio do Programa Pró- Haiti, e, da exploração do diário de campo, em que foram registradas vivências compartilhadas com a comunidade haitiana durante os anos de 2016 e 2017. Além de abordar a trajetória de migração dessas mulheres, também pretende-se explorar suas atuações dentro desse espaço e a integração de saberes diversos com estudantes advindas/os de outros países, assim como suas pretensões futuras.

This special issue of International Review of Social Research holds the challenge of representing a growing field of studies in the social sciences: that of consumption and material culture. In Brazilian academia, where most of the authors of the articles presented here come from, the study of consumption has experienced a boom in recent years, with an ever-increasing number of national and international meetings and congresses, as well as books and journals published. Despite the recent interest in the dynamics of consumption in complex societies, consumption is not, however, a completely new and unexamined theme in social sciences. In fact, consumption has been studied by anthropology the home discipline of the guest editors since its inception. Not only the consumption, but also the production and circulation of goods, have been examined by disciplinary sub-fields such as, for instance, economic anthropology or anthropology of food,