Humanities

Music

Cradlesongs

The formal characteristics of lullabies help put infants to sleep and introduce them into their cultural and affective context

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ECOLOGY

Artists on an Expedition, Biologists in the Museum

Amazonia: Os novos viajantes exhibition in São Paulo brings together art and science

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PHOTOGRAPHY

History in conflict

A new book gathers images of revolts, revolutions, and civil wars, and composes a historical narrative about Brazil

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POLITICAL SCIENCE

Life in the political parties

An unprecedented study in Brazil reveals who party activists are and what they think

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MUSIC

The (almost) unknown Villa-Lobos

Analysis of his musical oeuvre, in particular the symphonies, reveals the Brazilian composer’s complex creative process

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Interview

Paulina Alberto: Black activism in the twentieth century

A book explores why black intellectuals first relucted to endorse the ideals of racial harmony, then abandoned them altogether

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HISTORY

Paths to freedom

On the 130th anniversary of the abolition of slavery in Brazil, studies reveal the different roles of those involved in the process

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SOCIETY

From the factory floor to the floor of Congress

Researchers review the history of the struggles of Brazil’s feminist movements

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JUSTICE

A labyrinth of inconclusive decisions

86% of Brazil’s Federal Supreme Court decisions are responses to internal appeals

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Anthropology

The Bororo on screen

Researchers suggest that a film made by the Rondon Commission in 1916 may have been the first ethnographic documentary

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computer science

The reality emerging from an avalanche of data

Digital humanities are spreading through a variety of disciplines, influencing the training of researchers and driving public policy

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URBAN PLANNING

An ambivalent mayor

A study suggests that Pereira Passos’s reform of downtown Rio de Janeiro at the turn of the previous century was designed to integrate, rather than exclude, the lower classes

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LITERATURE

Modernism revisited

Researchers rethink the São Paulo avant-garde movement's place in the Brazilian cultural scene

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DEMOGRAPHY

Entry strategy

In less than a decade, new dynamics in migration flows and key features of legislation have led to a 34-fold increase in requests for asylum in Brazil

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History

Seeking freedom and survival

Slave women used strategies to purchase their liberation and obtain employment

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Archaeology

Settlers and farmers

Ancestors of the Jê group lived in pit houses and cultivated cassava and beans in the Santa Catarina highlands a thousand years ago

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LEGISLATION

A rainbow of demands

LGBT rights begin to gain respect through legal actions filed with the judicial branch

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ARCHAEOLOGY

Occupation of primordial “Brazil”

Evidence suggests that hunter-gatherers inhabited all major regions of Brazil roughly 10,000 years ago

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GENDER

New family structures in Brazilian homes

Research identifies a process of female emancipation within the family since the 1970s in Brazil

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Social Sciences

Routes in transformation

São Paulo has become the main distribution center for popular Chinese products in Brazil, replacing Ciudad del Este in Paraguay

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LETTER EDITING

Epistolary methodology

Criteria for the publication of intellectual correspondence

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LITERARY THEORY

Ideas from many quarters

Discussions mark the 40th anniversary of "Ao vencedor as batatas"

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HISTORY

Health between two worlds

Africans acted as bloodletters and midwives in the 19th century

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MUSEOLOGY

The uncertain fate of police museum collections

The uncertain fate of police museum collections

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LITERATURE

Lima Barreto as a chronicler of post-Abolition Brazil

A biography of Lima Barreto marks the genre’s resurgence in academia

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archaeology

Disappearance of megafauna from Lagoa Santa

Disappearance of megafauna from Lagoa Santa

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Archaeology

Homo sapiens in the middle of South America

Site near Cuiabá indicates that humans were present there 27,000 years ago

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Outreach

Global challenges of science communication

Event in Greece introduced science communication activities

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AUDIOVISUAL ARTS

The inner city speaks for itself

Inner city video activists show their own vision of São Paulo

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LITERARY THEORY

Literature as a system

The social reach of the work of Antonio Candido went beyond the university

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