Campus Social : Revista Lusófona de Ciências Sociais nº 02 (2005)

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As Misericórdias de Lisboa a Manila: Muito poder e alguma caridade
(Edições Universitárias Lusófonas, 2005) Sousa, Ivo Carneiro de; Faculdade de Ciências Sociais, Educação e Administração
Despite many instructions of the charitable institutions named as “Holy Houses of Mercy” , most of them, scattered between Lisbon and Manila mentioned speciﬁc social and material needs of the prisoners and poor Christians, the “ashamed” poor, the orphan girls and the widows, in reality they played an important role in the marriage market, a very important activity for reproducing resources for colonial control till the nineteenth century. The author analyses this feature with the help of the “gift” theory of Marcel Mauss, to show that even the charity roles served for colonial discrimination y favouring some privileged sections of the colonial populations. What was given out as charity was recovered as religious, political and social conversions.