Far beyond the consumption of bread: living conditions in Rio de Janeiro in the 1870s

Abstract The article presents, through various sources - periodicals, post-mortem inventories, voter qualification lists, novels -, the living conditions of Court workers, in order to show that despite the difficulties there was a margin for the consumption of superfluous products and even accumulation of goods, and that their choices in the market are not results of a pure economic logic, but, as Giovanni Levi argued, reflect important aspects of the culture of these groups.

摘要 本文通过期刊、死后财产清册、选民资格名单、小说等多种史料来源，展现了宫廷工作人员的生活状况，旨在说明：尽管面临诸多困难，该群体仍拥有消费非必需消费品乃至积累财物的空间；且他们在市场中的选择并非单纯受纯粹经济逻辑支配，正如乔瓦尼·莱维（Giovanni Levi）所主张的，这些选择折射出该群体文化维度的诸多重要特征。