History

Archaeology

Charred Neanderthal Tools

Excavations resulted in the discovery of a number of tools indicating that Neanderthals used fire to shape wooden objects earlier than previously thought

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Genetics

The origins of malaria in South America

The main parasite that transmits malaria in Brazil and other South American countries, may have arrived on the continent between 25,000 and 10,000 years ago

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History

Seeking freedom and survival

Slave women used strategies to purchase their liberation and obtain employment

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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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History

Fleas, lice, and the plague in the Middle Ages

Some studies suggest that fleas and lice carried by humans may have helped spread the plague during the second pandemic

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Retrospect

For the mad, the madhouse

The first insane asylums in Brazil were built in the mid-nineteenth century in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo

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INTERVIEW

Olival Freire Junior: A teller of controversial stories

A historian discusses the important role of dissent for the advancement of scientific knowledge

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OBITUARY

Historiographical pioneer

Historian leaves an important legacy for understanding the abolition of slavery in Latin America

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HISTORY

Health between two worlds

Africans acted as bloodletters and midwives in the 19th century

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Retrospect

Providing a legal education

Law schools contributed to the development of a national identity

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MUSEOLOGY

The uncertain fate of police museum collections

The uncertain fate of police museum collections

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LITERATURE

Lima Barreto as a chronicler of post-Abolition Brazil

A biography of Lima Barreto marks the genre’s resurgence in academia

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retrospect

Innovation during the Empire

First patents law helped encourage innovation in Brazil in the 19th century

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Archaeology

Homo sapiens in the middle of South America

Site near Cuiabá indicates that humans were present there 27,000 years ago

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Retrospect

An independent collector

Wanda Hanke traveled alone throughout South America in the 1930s

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Maria Ligia Coelho Prado

Maria Ligia Coelho Prado: Unanswered questions in Latin America

Historian talks about identities regarding Latin American development

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Archaeology

3,000-year-old copper mask is found in Argentina

3,000-year-old copper mask is found in Argentina

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MEMORY

For the sake of plant and animal health

At age 90, the Biological Institute has become a center for research

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SOCIETY

From the factory floor to the floor of Congress

Researchers review the history of the struggle by Brazil’s feminist movements

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Memory

Medicine in the countryside

Samuel Pessoa helped forge an intellectual tradition of public health

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Anthropology

The Bororo on-screen

The first ethnographic documentary was made 100 years ago

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Memory

The women of psychoanalysis

Women have contributed to the spread of Freud’s ideas in Brazil

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VISUAL ARTS 

The omnipresence of images

Studies show how photography has molded our way of seeing the world

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symposiums in Lucania

Women at the Magna Graecia Symposiums

A study suggests that women participated in events usually restricted to men

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HISTORY

Ways to obtain freedom and survive

Slave women used certain strategies to purchase their freedom

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Art

The rebirth of São Paulo’s baroque tradition

Recovery of artwork expands our understanding of São Paulo baroque

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Cover

Intellectuals in action

Editors and teachers worked together to produce children’s books

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COVER

Lobato’s predecessors

Brazilian authors began publishing children’s books in the 19th century

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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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