Anthropology

Retrospect

Anatomy lessons

A 1613 dictionary written by a Brazilian Jesuit priest recorded the Tupi's knowledge of the human body

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Education

Expanded knowledge

The presence of the first generations of indigenous people in graduate studies broadens the scope of scientific investigations

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Cinema

An unreleased Nelson Pereira dos Santos film

Historian finds copy of short film made by Santos about a pioneering project by the Federal University of Mato Grosso

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Photography

Much more than a photographer

A retrospective on Marc Ferrez brings to light his dialogue with science and expands knowledge of his work

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Population Studies

Misplaced youth

Researchers look for explanations for the increase in youth suicide rates in Brazil

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Archaeology

Ancient use of psychoactive substances in Bolivia

An international team of anthropologists and bioarchaeologists has identified traces of hallucinogenic substances in a 1,000-year-old leather bag found in the Bolivian Andes

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Interview

Francisco de Assis Costa: The multiple faces of the Amazon

Economist points out the diversity of productive structures and the role of peasants dating back to the eighteenth century

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Urbanism

Controversial airport on sacred Incan land

The recently started construction of an international airport in Chinchero, southeastern Peru, has raised concerns about potential damage to archaeological sites in the region

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Archaeogenetics

When indigenous people occupied Lagoa Santa

Ancient DNA reveals rapid human colonization of South America 14,000 years ago

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Amazonia

Brother in the North

Emílio Goeldi Museum of Pará reaches 152nd anniversary with 4.5 million items preserved, but few protected

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INTERVIEW

Niède Guidon: “I’m going to open the Museum of Nature and then I will rest”

After four decades in the Serra da Capivara, the archaeologist confirms that she will leave Piauí after the opening of the new exhibition space

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NATURAL HISTORY

A new window on the sertão

The foundation created by archaeologist Niède Guidon is set to inaugurate its Museum of Nature in December at Serra da Capivara National Park in Piauí

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Archaeology

Prehistory in pieces

The skull of Luzia and a 2,800-year-old Egyptian mummy were among the more than 100,000 items in the archaeology and biological anthropology collections

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SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY

Rebuilding heritage

Partnerships with indigenous peoples and community associations will be decisive to the restoration of ethnographic and linguistic collections

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Photolab

Pre-Columbian Culture

Fragments of ceramic figures indicate that at the time there was a cultural connection between peoples across South America

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anthropology

How graffiti tensions art

Graffiti movement gave rise to São Paulo's own language

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ANTHROPOLOGY

Between transgression and art

A research project analyzes how the pixação graffiti movement in São Paulo developed its own language of expression and became a force in art circles

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SOCIAL SCIENCES

International pregnancy

Demand for assisted reproduction increases foreign genetic material in Brazil

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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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COVER

More people in the rainforest

New archaeological sites and evidence of plant domestication support the idea that pre-Columbian Amazonia was densely populated

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Archaeology

Fishing scenes in the Atacama

The people who inhabited the northern coast of Chile before European colonization may have been skilled fishermen and marine hunters

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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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RETROSPECT

For a return to former glory

At its 200th anniversary, Brazil’s National Museum is looking to reclaim its important role in disseminating natural sciences in Brazil

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Genetics

A superfamily of 13 million people

Thirteen million people connected by blood ties or marriage over five centuries make up the largest family tree ever constructed

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Archaeology

The world’s oldest figural tattoos

Two naturally mummified bodies have what archaeologists consider to be the earliest known figural tattoos

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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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archaeology

Rice domesticated in the Amazon 4,000 years ago

Rice domesticated in the Amazon 4,000 years ago

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Anthropology

The Neanderthal in each of us

There may be more Neanderthal in modern Homo sapiens than thought

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Retrospect

An independent collector

Wanda Hanke traveled alone throughout South America in the 1930s

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