Anthropology

The utopian torch

The hundredth anniversary celebration for Darcy Ribeiro highlights the anthropologist's contribution to sociology and education

Challenges of legislation

Despite strict punishments established in the Penal Code, public policies are needed to reduce sexual crime

The first bipedal hominids

Considered the oldest representative of the human lineage, the species Sahelanthropus tchadensis lived around seven million years ago

Ancient peoples dug up the dead

Digging up the dead and then burying them again with adornments was a common mortuary practice for ancient South American peoples

Interpreters of political debate

Indigenous peoples appropriated liberal ideas circulating in the Americas and Europe in order to claim their rights

Dating indicates that skeleton found in Piauí is 9,600 years old

Nicknamed Zuzu, the individual was a contemporary of the oldest human groups in South America

Possible origin of the Black Death

Black Death may have originated in the region of Eurasia that is now Kyrgyzstan, west of China

Karen Strier: Four decades with the muriquis

American anthropologist has contributed to primate conservation in the Atlantic Forest and trained almost 80 Brazilian researchers

An observer of Amazon peoples

Materials collected by German anthropologist Protásio Frikel between 1938 and 1974 have continued to yield a wealth of data for research about indigenous groups in northern Pará

A neglected threat to ethnobotany

Study shows that language extinction could lead to incalculable losses of medicinal knowledge

Discoveries about the past

Early demographic data show that 20% of households were headed by women in colonial Brazil

Roberto Santos Junior: The limits of an Amazonian dream

Despite causing major damage, the Trans-Amazonian Highway fostered the formation of small farming communities

Recognition for Indigenous Scholar

Maria Manuela Ligeti Carneiro da Cunha was awarded the Almirante Álvaro Alberto Prize for Science and Technology in the Human and Social Sciences, Languages, and Arts category

Néstor García Canclini: An anthropologist of the contemporary

A Brazilian intellectual produces pioneering analyses of the paradoxes of Latin American modernity

Population decline in pre-colonial Amazonia

In response to environmental changes, epidemics, or wars, the populational decline of the Amazon region may have started 300 to 600 years before contact with European settlers

Gazing at the other

Using photographs, a researcher analyzes the phenomenon of human zoos

In real time

Academic initiatives are collecting personal accounts of memories and mourning experienced during the pandemic

Death of a man; extinction of an ethnic group

Aruká Juma, the last person to speak the language of the Juma people, died of COVID-19 on February

Territorial conquest

Dialogue between anthropology and the arts drives the inclusion of indigenous artists in the museological scene

Physician, anthropologist, and broadcaster

Inquisitive and inventive, Edgard Roquette-Pinto participated in the country’s antiracial movements and the introduction of radio

Yvonne Maggie: An anthropologist of Afro-Brazilian religions

A researcher of race relations and education, this professor emeritus of UFRJ has been teaching and researching with the institution for over 50 years

30,000 years ago in the Americas

Mexican site suggests settlement of the Americas began 30,000 years ago

The first voyages across the Pacific

The first inhabitants of Polynesia had contact with native peoples from the Americas just over 800 years ago

Research during quarantine

Inked

From the margins of society to iconic pop culture; study reconstructs the history of tattooing in Brazil

Primitive gardens in the Amazon

Evidence of cassava and pumpkin cultivation, dated at 10,350 and 10,250 years ago respectively, helped an international team of researchers to identify 4,700 artificial forests in the Llanos de Moxos region in Bolivia

An anthropologist of violence

Alba Zaluar, a pioneer in crime and social policy studies, dies at 77

The last of the Tupiniquim

Indigenous people from Espírito Santo reached the Brazilian coastline 1,200 years ago and later met European colonizers during the Age of Discovery

Discriminatory algorithms

How artificial intelligence assumes discriminatory behavior and what science can do to prevent it

Anna Curtenius Roosevelt: The rainforest archaeologist

Excavations in South America helped the American researcher reinterpret how Amazonia was occupied before European colonization