Humanities

Literature

New voices of new authors

The characteristics of Brazilian recent fiction

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Media

The press vs. the government

Three major newspapers played a role in the fall of Jango

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Literature

Is the book dead? Long live the book!

Studies reveal new reading trends with e-readers

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Education

Re-learning to study

Research rehabilitates learning by heart in education

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Anthropology

Isn’t anthropology a science?

Debate puts in check the fundaments of the subject

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History

A city built from sweat and steel

Companhia Siderúrgica Nacional was the initial test of developmentalism

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Cinema

Artistic madness

How the seventh art depicts mental disorders

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Sociology

Faith in modernity and stepping on the gas

Brazil's controversial relationship with automobiles

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History

Religious Freedom under the Dutch

The freedom of the Jews in Nassau's Brazil

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Education

School Sounds

Teaching music becomes compulsory again

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Architecture

The city of engineers

The urban fabric of São Paulo was created by "technical and erudite knowledge"

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Anthropology

São Paulo television, from popular to erudite

Study investigates what musical programs meant to the country

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Sociology

The very dissimilar Bahia

Research done in the USA reveals the rich culture in Salvador

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Art

The universal painter of the brazilian soul

Paintings by Portinari, revealing his love of peace, return to Brazil

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History

For whom did the snake smoke?

Studies show the importance of Brazil's participation in the Second World War

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History of science

The gold of wisdom

The Royal Society celebrates its 350th anniversary

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History

The color that invaded the backcountry

Mystical luxury and wealth underscore the esthetics of the cangaço banditry

Ecology

Between man and nature

Dilemma between preservation and development has been constant in Brazil

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Literature

A guidebook for reading Antonio Vieira

Book helps one navigate through the sermons of the Portuguese priest

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History

The secret photos of professor Agassiz

Exhibition and book shed light on images made by a rival of Darwin

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Cinema

History in the darkness of a movie theater

Study shows the connection between cinema and the State in Brazil

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Economy

Citizenship in the digital era

Electronic government grows in the country, but study identifies needs

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Sociology

Silenced love

How the policies of the nineteenth century elite shaped our sexuality

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Anthropology

The arena of reason and passion

The relations between the university, the theatre and the city in the 1940's

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Tribute

The sadness of feuilleton novels

Marlyse Meyer was an outstanding thinker of Brazilian culture

Anthropology

The invention of Indians in Brazil

Analysis deconstructs the notion of the anthropologist as a translator

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Demographics

Brazilian diversity

Census will reveal how many ethnic groups and languages exist in Brazil

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Literature

A genius of the essay

Study states that essayist Nelson Rodrigues was "Brazil's Montaigne"

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History

Death wish

Research discusses the polemic banzo issue as the "mortal nostalgia" of slaves

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Music

Songs that go on for ever

The tango, the bolero and the fado remain alive thanks to electronic media

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