Humanities

History

Negotiated Christianity

Jesuit missions had to deal with indigenous versions of Catholicism

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SOCIETY

Altered cities

Building a hydroelectric plant does not benefit the surrounding area

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EDUCATION

Literacy for real

A project encourages improvements and discovers failures in public education

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Communication

Changing times

Glut of online news is reorganizing the spaces and roles of science journalism

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Cinema

China’s eyes and ears

Films by Jia Zhang-ke gain a global audience with their critical view of China

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Society

Violence, fear and stigma

Researchers bring families separated by Hansen’s disease back together

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SOCIOLOGY

Rearrangements in the Metropolis

Communities on the Greater São Paulo have become more heterogeneous

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SOCIETY

Architecture for all

Study uncovers high-quality projects during the Vargas era

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POLITICAL SCIENCE

A difficult relationship

Study shows rising ignorance about the democratic system

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Communications

Relative peace

Relationship between scientists and journalists has improved

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HISTORY

Ancestral privileges

Book describes the roots of public excess in Brazil during the colonial period

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Communication

Reporting science

Júlio Abramczyk and José Hamilton Ribeiro write about scientific topics

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ARCHEOLOGY

The City and the Countryside

The importance of rural areas in the ancient Greek cities of the Mediterranean

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SOCIOLOGY

Persistent Inequalities

Access to income and civil rights has increased, but there are disparities

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GEOLOGICAL TOURISM

A 600-million-year old São Paulo

Itinerary with stone from a distant past in the historic center of São Paulo

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ARCHITECTURAL HERITAGE

Behind the façades

Inventory calls attention to the loss of historic structures in São Paulo

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Architecture

The Artigas whirlwind

Artiga's centennial includes his legacy as educator, militant and thinker

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Heritage

Feet planted in history

The remaining members of quilombos struggle to preserve their traditions

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History of science

Diplomats in the laboratory

Project investigates scientific exchanges between Brazil and Nazi Germany

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HISTORY

Bankers for the slave trade

Old documents show Lisbon merchants' role in Angolan slave trade

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Literature

Poetry out of scraps

Studies define style and roots of Carolina Maria de Jesus' work

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Cinema

Brazil on the road

Similarities between American and Brazil's road movie

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SOCIOLOGY

Days of fury

More than a million Brazilians have taken part in an act of lynching

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History

Monções (almost) rewritten

Sérgio Buarque de Holanda liked to rewrite his books

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EDUCATION

Conceptual understanding

Digital tool reveals the structure of texts and improves learning

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HISTORY

Overseas intrigue

“Hope” in the relations between Portugal, the Netherlands and England

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Philosophy

Ideas in transition

Period between Wittgenstein's two most famous works is studied

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SOCIOLOGY

Rearrangements in the Metropolis

Communities on the Greater São Paulo have become more heterogeneous

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The Architecture of Knowledge

The Architecture of Knowledge

Schools of yesteryear as the materialization of a republican plan for education

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Critical Studies

The historian and his time

Book reconciles theory and practice in a discussion of historiography

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