期刊名称：Campus Social - Revista Lusófona de Ciências Sociais
印刷版ISSN：1645-9857
出版年度：2005
卷号：0
期号：2
页码：114-121
语种：Portuguese
出版社：ACSEL
摘要：Despite many instructions of the charitable institutions named as "Holy Houses of Mercy", most of them, scattered between Lisbon and Manila met 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 the 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 in favouring some privileged sections of the colonial society. What was given out as charity was recovered as religious, political and social conversions.
