Lugar, identidad y "sociedades de barrio" en Lisboa

Abstract

The object of this article is to provide some reflection on the construction of social neighborhoods and site identities, degrees of local organisation and cultural processes in a town of the characteristics of Lisbon, based on two social and anthropological studies on two quarters in Lisbon, located in the old part of the town.«Neighborhood Society» designates a specific social configuration of such neighborhoods - and this is where one of the points of the proposed comparative analysis is.