Abstract

ROSELLO SOBERON, Estela. Happiness made in Mexico: Luxury, Consumption, and Happiness among the Middle Classes of Lomas de Chapultepec (Mexico City, 2018). Relac. Estud. hist. soc. [online]. 2020, vol.41, n.163, pp.1-33.  Epub June 18, 2021. ISSN 2448-7554.  https://doi.org/10.24901/rehs.v41i163.669.

This article presents a methodological exercise linking the history and anthropology of emotions as a way to reflect on certain cultural aspects of experience and the representation of happiness among Mexico City’s upper classes in the residential neighborhood Lomas de Chapultepec. This project in the field of cultural history, begun in 2018, offers three ethnographic chronicles that describe “experiences of luxury” to show the relation that exists between consumption and the construction of a precise emotion -in this case, happiness- in socially-privileged sectors of Mexico. Adopting tools from microhistory and ethnography, the essay demonstrates how the happiness of these social sectors is constructed upon a cultural mixture that integrates many elements of bourgeois American and global lifestyles with others inherited from the country’s colonial Hispanic past.

Keywords : Classism; discrimination; consumption; privileged sectors; history-anthropology of emotions.

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