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Afro-Brazilian Returnee Festivals: From Brazilian Bumba-Meu-Boi to Contemporary Lagos Carnival

Genealogy
Drawing upon the works of Kazadi wa Mukuma, Gerhard Kubik, Carlos de Lima, Vivian Gotheim, Wilson Nogueira, Temitope Fagunwa, and Alaba Simpson, this study traced the evolution of Bumba-Meu-Boi from its regional origins in Maranhao, Brazil, to its ...
Niyi Afolabi
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Brazil and the Afro-Asian World: a Decolonial Approach

Brasiliana: Journal for Brazilian Studies, 2022
The Brazilian path to political emancipation that culminated two centuries ago was a rather peculiar one. After becoming the head of the Portuguese empire in 1808, Brazil became an independent country under the rule of the same royal family that governed
Marcelo Alves de Paula Lima
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Review of Calunga and the legacy of an African language in Brazil

Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, 2014
Calunga is a currently disappearing and ill-described Afro-Brazilian speech variety which is mainly used in and around the town of Patrocínio in the state of Minas Gerais by an estimated couple of hundred of mostly older men, the so-called calungadores ...
Tjerk Hagemeijer
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What’s in a name? Revisiting medicinal and religious plants at an Amazonian market

Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, 2021
Background In spite of an increasing number of ethnobotanical market surveys in the past decades, few studies compare changes in plant species trade over time.
Isabela Pombo Geertsma, Mariana Françozo, Tinde van Andel, Mireia Alcántara Rodríguez   +3 more
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Community and Communion Radio: Listening to Evangelical Programmes in a Brazilian Favela [PDF]

, 2013
According to academics and regulators, Evangelical and community radio belong to different sectors. Yet, in the favela, the urban environment and set of airwaves were saturated with religious sounds and programmes.
Andrea Medrado, Atton, Birman, Boudewijnse, Cameron, Carpentier, Cohen, Davie, De Medina, De Nora, Deleuze, Downing, Festa, Figueredo Filho, Freire, Freston, Freston, Girard, Hendy, Howley, Jankowski, Lewis, Meyer, Oosterbaan, Perlman, Queiroz Ribeiro, Rodriguez, Sconce   +27 more
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Revisiting the Null Subject Parameter: New Insights from Afro-Peruvian Spanish

Isogloss, 2017
With the advent of the Minimalist Program (Chomsky 1995), the prevailing view of linguistic variation and contrast within universal Grammar has undergone a shift from rigidly defined parameters ˗associated with clusters of properties (Chomsky 1981 ...
Sandro Sessarego, Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach   +1 more
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Genetic Ancestry Reveals Historical Diversity of Formation Across Three Brazilian Communities of African Descent (Quilombos) in Central Brazil [PDF]

Am J Hum Biol
ABSTRACT Introduction Characterized as relatively isolated communities, many Brazilian quilombos were formed during the period of slavery in Brazil when enslaved persons (most of African descent) ran away or were abandoned by their enslavers. Quilombos in Central Brazil, whose settlement was more recent due to the relative isolation of the region ...
Paiva S, Rivara A, de Castro Nóbrega M, Toledo R, Klautau‐Guimarães M, dos Santos S, Madrigal L, de Oliveira S.   +7 more
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Sotaques e sintaxes: acentuando o falar caboclo nas religiões afro-brasileiras

Afro-Ásia, 2020
Os caboclos são espíritos e encantados afro-ameríndios que podem se manifestar por muitas formas nas religiões de matriz africana. Em comum têm a capacidade (nem sempre compartilhada por outras divindades, como os orixás) de falar.
Mauricio dos Santos, Thiago de Azevedo Pinheiro Hoshino   +1 more
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The dialectics of trauma and political conscientization: A psychosocial study of activism for supporting sexual and gender minoritized communities in Brazil

Journal of Traumatic Stress, EarlyView.
Abstract This qualitative study examined the dialectical association between psychosocial trauma and political conscientization in the lives of activists advocating for persons with marginalized sexual orientations and gender identities (2SLGBTQIA+) in São José dos Campos, Brazil.
Gab C. Siqueira, Luisa F. Velásquez Vallejo, Antonio Euzebios Filho   +2 more
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Views of Vidigal: negotiating opportunities and risks in a gentrifying favela in Rio de Janeiro Favela avec vue : négocier opportunités et risques dans un quartier en voie de gentrification à Rio de Janeiro

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
The contested dynamics of slum gentrification in Rio de Janeiro came into focus during the brief period of relative peace brought by the pacification policy leading up to the 2016 Olympics. In this unprecedented moment, Rio's South Zone favela residents experienced a respite from the daily confrontations with police operations and drug trade violence ...
Angela Torresan
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