History

HISToRy

Negotiated Christianity

Between the 17th and 18th centuries, Jesuit missions in the Spanish Amazon had to deal with indigenous versions of Catholicism

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Archaeology

The peoples of Lagoa Santa

Human burial sites in Minas Gerais reveal a succession of customs from 10,000 to 8,000 years ago

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geomagnetism

Magnetic memories of the Jesuit missions

In ruins located in southern Brazil, geophysicists have recovered information about the Earth’s magnetic field from 350 years ago

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MEMORY

Benvenuti, Doctors!

Italian physicians contributed to research in São Paulo

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HISTORY

Light and Power

Companies from the 19th century formed the São Paulo electric power industry

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VIRTUAL REALITY

The past revealed through cyberarcheology

Lasers and 3-D imaging are used to digitally reconstruct historical heritage

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MPG

The dark shadow of eugenics in Nazi Germany

Society to investigate crimes committed by its scientists in Nazism

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CAREERS

Boost for Brazilian science

The paths of researchers who sequenced the genome of Xylella

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FIELD WORK

Scenes from an archeological site

Archeological excavations at an ancient burial site

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Memory

Doctor Benignus and the aliens

Doctor Benignus was the first science fiction book published in Brazil

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LITERATURE

The fluctuations of Dostoyevsky

Russian writers oscillated in prestige in Brazil following politics

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POLITICAL THEORY

The staying power of Hannah Arendt

The foundations laid by Hannah Arendt are still fertile

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FORENSIC ANTHROPOLOGY

Battle against the disappearances

Researchers work to identify persons who disappeared during the dictatorship

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Coffee

Physicians and coffee in 19th-century Brazil

Physicians in 19th century prescribed the drink to treat fevers

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MEMORY

Oriental excavations

Archeologist produced collection based on his scientific expeditions to Brazil

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Indigenous Policy

A strategy of enticement

Imperial government sought to push native peoples off their lands

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Arts

The radio era

Research analyzes Brazilian music between samba and bossa nova

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HISTORY

Black intellectuality during the Brazilian Empire

Before Abolition, the descendants of slaves played an important social role

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MEMORY

The Empire’s river

Halfeld was the first to conduct a survey of the São Francisco River

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IMMIGRATION

Unity from a distance

Italians in Brazil developed the notion of Italianness

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computerized microtomographies

Microtomography virtually unwraps a biblical scroll

Digitally enhanced images allowed to decode a fragile scroll in Hebrew

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Paleontology

Two pre-mammals in southern Brazil

Two new species of cynodonts were described in the science literature

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integralism

Integralism collection donated to Unicamp

A collection on the Brazilian movement was donated to Unicamp

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Memory

Genetics’ roots in Brazil

Mendelism teaching in agronomy schools of São Paulo began in 1910

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FAMILY PLANNING

Laws in the feminine form

A study recalls the history of women’s reproductive rights in Brazil

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COVER

Prehistoric fishing

Amerindians caught sharks and whitemouth croakers 5,000 years ago

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COVER

The peoples of Lagoa Santa

Human burial sites reveal customs from 10,000 to 8,000 years ago

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anthropology

Disappearance and struggle

The attempt to identify missing persons from remains from a clandestine grave

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Memory

Subverting the genre

Marie Curie was awarded her second Nobel Prize one hundred years ago

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History

Monções (almost) rewritten

Sérgio Buarque de Holanda liked to rewriting his works

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