From a transversal perspective that crosses the knowledge of anthropology, design studies and art studies, the aim is to study the exhibition, sale, purchase and appropriation of examples of Portuguese material culture in Paris. 

The project aims to interrogate the complex dynamics of the relationships between people and things, where the following coexist: 1) the construction of ethnicised and patrimonialised meanings when objects are made; 2) the affirmation and resignification of these first meanings while the objects live out their commodity status within a framework of ethnic entrepreneurship; 3) the appropriation of these objects and the subsequent resignifications that take place during the objects' social lives with their owners.