History

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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ART

Transnational hillbillies

Almeida Junior created his figures with the naturalist painting from Europe

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PALEONTOLOGY

Inside fossils

Computed tomography permits detailed analysis of bones of extinct animals

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THE SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY

Fifty years since that night

UBA's invasion by police was the precursor to the brain drain from Argentina

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Memory

A country in statistics

The IBGE has modernized its social and economic statistics in Brazil

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Obituary

Brazilianist par excellence

U.S. historian Thomas Skidmore authored a classic study on Republican Brazil

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ECONOMICS

Efficiency on tracks

The São Paulo Railway Company was an exception in the railway industry

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Tapuiasaurus macedoi

Titanosaur in Minas Gerais

Skull discovered in Minas Gerais is the oldest titanosaur in South America

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MEMORY

Recognizing the researchers

The Brazilian Academy of Sciences celebrates its centennial anniversary

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GEOMAGNETISM

Magnetic memories of the Jesuit missions

Geophysicists recovered information about the Earth’s magnetic field

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Digitization

Reclaiming the past

Mormon initiative recovers old records from offices in São Paulo cities

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