Humanities

ECONOMICS

Persistent effects of immigration

People with non-Iberian surnames earn higher salaries than other Brazilians

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 URBANISM 

United cities

Cities in Campinas come together to solve common problems

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CINEMA

Horror, Brazilian style

Brazilian horror films have little known tradition

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SOCIETY

From the factory floor to the floor of Congress

Researchers review the history of the struggle by Brazil’s feminist movements

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LETTERS

Brazilian literature in transit

Books with exotic stories characterized early translations of Brazilian authors

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JUSTICE

A labyrinth of inconclusive decisions

Most Federal Supreme Court decisions are responses to internal appeals

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Anthropology

The Bororo on-screen

The first ethnographic documentary was made 100 years ago

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Literature

João Antônio’s journalism and fiction

João Antônio used his experience in the press to portray the lower classes

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VISUAL ARTS 

The omnipresence of images

Studies show how photography has molded our way of seeing the world

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URBAN GEOGRAPHY

A life within walls

Gated communities and shopping malls accentuate social and spatial separation

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HISTORY

Ways to obtain freedom and survive

Slave women used certain strategies to purchase their freedom

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Art

The rebirth of São Paulo’s baroque tradition

Recovery of artwork expands our understanding of São Paulo baroque

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Economics

Good news for sugarcane

In addition to environmental benefits, an increase in ethanol production has helped to improve people’s lives in the countryside

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HISToRy

Negotiated Christianity

Between the 17th and 18th centuries, Jesuit missions in the Spanish Amazon had to deal with indigenous versions of Catholicism

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Archaeology

The peoples of Lagoa Santa

Human burial sites in Minas Gerais reveal a succession of customs from 10,000 to 8,000 years ago

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HISTORY

Light and Power

Companies from the 19th century formed the São Paulo electric power industry

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ARCHEOLOGY

Sedentary farmers

Ancestors of the Jê group engaged in farming a thousand years ago

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ECONOMICS

Cooperatives against the crisis

Projects study worker groups formed to take control of bankrupt companies

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Music

The sound of near chaos

Free improvisation is further studied and gets a foothold on stage

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LITERATURE

The fluctuations of Dostoyevsky

Russian writers oscillated in prestige in Brazil following politics

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POLITICAL THEORY

The staying power of Hannah Arendt

The foundations laid by Hannah Arendt are still fertile

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FORENSIC ANTHROPOLOGY

Battle against the disappearances

Researchers work to identify persons who disappeared during the dictatorship

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Indigenous Policy

A strategy of enticement

Imperial government sought to push native peoples off their lands

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Arts

The radio era

Research analyzes Brazilian music between samba and bossa nova

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HISTORY

Black intellectuality during the Brazilian Empire

Before Abolition, the descendants of slaves played an important social role

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Urbanism

A place to live

Areas for low-income housing only function as complementary measures

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IMMIGRATION

Unity from a distance

Italians in Brazil developed the notion of Italianness

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Education

Children and the world

Research associates reflections by Hannah Arendt on education with her work

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FAMILY PLANNING

Laws in the feminine form

A study recalls the history of women’s reproductive rights in Brazil

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MENTAL HEALTH

Atelier Juquery

Sculptures and paintings reflect the role of art in psychiatric hospitals

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