History

Demographics

Discoveries about the past

Early demographic data show that 20% of households were headed by women in colonial Brazil

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History

From Tupi to Portuguese

Six letters written in ancient Tupi by indigenous peoples during the Brazilian colonial period have finally been transcribed and translated into Portuguese

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Retrospect

The scourge of disease during the Paraguayan War

Most soldiers who fought in the largest armed conflict in South America died of cholera and other infectious diseases, rather than in battle

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Retrospect

Tales from Antiquity

A book of important historical texts translated into Portuguese is about to turn 50

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Neuroscience

The archaeology of the mind

Supported by mathematical models, study investigates the development of human thought over thousands of years

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Archaeology

The Koriabo puzzle

Evidence reveals Pre-Columbian ceramic style used by indigenous peoples of the lower Amazon

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Interview

A visionary of modernity

Aracy Amaral talks about Brazilian modernism

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Archaeology

The enigmatic dragon man

An almost complete skull fossil that was hidden for 85 years may belong to a new species of archaic human being

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Interview

Benjamin A. Cowan: Brazil and the new right

North American historian launches book about religious conservatism in the 20th century

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History

The visible and the invisible

Despite attempts to erase the iconography of slavery, it has left its mark on both the people and the land

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Archaeology

78,000-year-old human burial

The oldest known burial by modern humans in Africa took place about 78,000 years ago

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Retrospect

Education for democracy

Anísio Teixeira’s work is the basis for the defense of public, free, and secular education in Brazil

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COVID-19

In real time

Academic initiatives are collecting personal accounts of memories and mourning experienced during the pandemic

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Archaeology

3,000-year-old city in the Valley of the Kings

In early April, archaeologists and the Egyptian government announced the discovery of a 3,000-year-old city, the largest ever unearthed in ancient Egypt

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Obituary

Interpreter of slavery

Historian Manolo Florentino developed iconic studies on the transatlantic slave trade

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History

Overseas connections

Researchers investigate the production and dissemination of knowledge during the Portuguese Empire, and their ambiguous power relationships with the colonies

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COVID-19

Death of a man; extinction of an ethnic group

Aruká Juma, the last person to speak the language of the Juma people, died of COVID-19 on February

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History

Unfolding the past

Using an X-ray microtomography scanner, an international team of researchers was able to read the contents of a letter from the Renaissance Period without actually opening it

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Obituary

Historian between two worlds

Shozo Motoyama developed benchmark research projects about the history of science and Japanese immigration in Brazil

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Retrospect

Physician, anthropologist, and broadcaster

Inquisitive and inventive, Edgard Roquette-Pinto participated in the country’s antiracial movements and the introduction of radio

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History

The tortuous entry into Brazil

Documents detail the arrival of enslaved Africans in Rio de Janeiro in the early nineteenth century

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RETROSPECT

The beginnings of pediatrics

In the late nineteenth century, Rio de Janeiro doctors worked together to reduce child mortality rates

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Archival science

Behind the scenes of science

Classified as documents, notebooks describing early research can serve as a source of reference for further studies

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INTERVIEW

Lourdes Sola: The transitions of democracy

A pioneer in Brazilian political science, the researcher speaks on the relationship between politics and economics

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History

The representation of a hero

The image of Tiradentes overcame the lack of visual records and became one of the most popular from Brazil’s history

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UFRJ – 100 YEARS

Two years after the fire

The Brazilian National Museum has recovered 90% of the artifacts not totally destroyed by the flames and has raised almost 45% of the funding it needs to begin reconstruction in 2021

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Museology

Revisiting and reclaiming the past

Researchers and native peoples discuss repatriation of artifacts taken during colonial eras

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UFRJ – 100 Years

A century-long heritage

The Federal University of Rio de Janeiro has reached its 100th anniversary as one of the most productive institutions in Brazil

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Archaeology

Inca offerings in Lake Titicaca

A stone box made of volcanic rock found at the bottom of Lake Titicaca is helping archaeologists to better understand the religious beliefs and practices of the ancient Incan Empire

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Archival science

Not to be forgotten

After 16 years cataloging collections and tracking down missing documentary heritage, Brazil’s national committee for the Memory of the World program was suspended in 2019

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