Anthropology

Archaeology

The people of Lagoa Santa

A team of researchers work on an archaeological site at Lapa do Santo

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ANTHROPOLOGY

Knowledge through images

Project analyzes the use of photos and film as a research strategy or product

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Eunice Durham

Eunice Durham: Flexible university models

A leading figure in research on education, anthropologist reviews her career

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Heritage

Feet planted in history

The remaining members of quilombos struggle to preserve their traditions

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Genetics

Isolated for 100,000 years

The Khoisan of southern Africa was the largest population on the planet

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Anthropology

The mechanical man

Thesis suggests that exoskeletons bring back the cyborg ideal

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Genetics

The colors of Latin America

Ancestry affects appearance, but self-perception is skewed

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LITERATURE

Against the colonization of thought

João Ubaldo Ribeiro contributed to reflections on Brazilian identities

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Sociology

Unstable Macrometropolis

3.8 million people are living in precarious favelas in São Paulo State

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genes

Genes and skin color

Alterations may influence skin pigmentation of mixed populations

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Soap opera

A revolution in TV soap operas

Beto Rockfeller is reevaluated with the help of scanned files

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prehistory

Twice out of Africa

Modern humans left Africa in at least two migratory waves

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 POLITICAL SCIENCE 

Social Movement Mobility

Network analysis in civil society challenges the theory of “NGO-ization”

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GENETICS

The origin of the lake people

Uros people may be descendants of the first inhabitants of the Andean plateau

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Memory

Ingenuity and art

Theodoro Sampaio's contributions to Brazil, from Salvador to São Paulo

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AGING

Politically correct eroticism

An anthropologist looks at the argument for a rewarding sex life in old age

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Memory

Stories in a drawer

Snethlage’s research on indians in the 1930s hasn't seen the light of day

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Occupation of the Americas

Amerindian genome

Amerindian genome is sequenced for the first time

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Pre-Colombian Amazon

Ancient occupation of the Amazon

Area equivalent to twice Portugal may have been occupied by indians

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ancient genome

Amerindian with European DNA

Natives of the Americas are closer to Europeans than imagined

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Pleistocene

Man did not hunt large animals in Brazil

Man did not hunt large animals in Brazil

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Aging

Politically correct eroticism

An anthropologist looks at the argument for a rewarding sex life in old age

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COVER

The subverted skull

Research that links male facial width to aggressive behavior is challenged

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Expedition

Science to build a nation

Rondon Commission gave rise to indigenist policies

anthropology

The Invention of Brasilian Indians

Analysis dismantles the notion of anthropologists as translators

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People from the Amazon

The human factor

Brazil nuts may result from indigenous actions before Europeans

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Folk medicine

Health cultures

Specialist lists the therapeutical uses of plants and animals in Brazil

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Walter Neves

Walter Neves: Luzia’s father

Archeologist developed a theory on man’s arrival to the Americas

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Expedition

Science to create a nation

Rondon Commission naturalists helped to formalize scientific research

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Obituary

What young people owe Velho

Gilberto Velho was a pioneer of urban anthropology in Brazil