A home in foreign land: Space and sociability at a femenine student’s house.
This article seizes forms of social built between the residents of the house of University Students of Curitiba. The orientation of images is given by looking "outside" and "inside", which reflect different perceptions beside social relations and ways of occupancy of space. The connections between the girls involve a calculation of personal affinities whose idiosyncrasies are designed and made to disappear as soon to form the small community of the dormitory, the floor, or a large community of the house. The paradox is that we must assert the individuality before to dissolve itself in the community later. Far from home, the person discovers and invents another house, thanks to the relations that seeks to establish. This contrivance generates new values and produces a new individual. That is what makes CEUC a stage for drama of a rite of passage from home to the world, from adolescence to adulthood.