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Evidence of Abortion Attitude Flexibility during COVID-19 in Pernambuco, Brazil. [PDF]
Stud Fam PlannAbstract This study examines changes in women's attitudes toward abortion in Brazil during the first year of the COVID‐19 pandemic, focusing on the role of religious affiliation. Brazil provides a unique context for examining abortion attitudes because of its strict abortion policies, changing religious landscape, and back‐to‐back Zika and COVID‐19 ...
Whitfield B, Coutinho RZ, Marteleto L.
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Revealing novelty from the southwestern Atlantic, Yemanjia gen. nov. and Olokunococcus gen. nov. from the coral cyanobiome of the Abrolhos Bank. [PDF]
J PhycolAbstract Cyanobacteria comprise over 6000 species and inhabit diverse environments, including marine invertebrates such as sponges and corals. High‐throughput sequencing has indicated an abundance of Cyanobacteria communities in these hosts, yet taxonomic resolution has remained low below the phylum level.
Aiube YRA +5 more
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Corporalidade do Candomblé pelo Olhar de Neves e Sousa
Kwanissa, 2021 A corporalidade dentro dos rituais da religião brasileira Candomblé possui papel fundamental na preservação de uma tradição e valorização étnica. Identificando como potente representante deste universo cosmológico, usou-se como objeto de estudo as obras ...
Natasha Martins +3 more
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A idade do santo. Crianças e autoridade ritual no candomblé
Horizontes Antropológicos, 2021 Resumo O candomblé é uma tradição de matriz africana com organização social, hierarquia e regras próprias. Pesquisando com crianças no terreiro de candomblé ketu Ilê Axé Omin Mafé em Sergipe pode-se compreender que o mundo do candomblé possui suas ...
Christiane Rocha Falcão
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Anthropology and Humanism, Volume 48, Issue 2, Page 328-330, December 2023., 2023 Summary Over the course of the last decade, I have conducted fieldwork on the militarization of Rio de Janeiro and on the security industry that developed in response to the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympics. This fictional short story follows two different imagined security laborers, Nico and Valesca, reflecting the racial, gendered, and class tensions
Erika Robb Larkins
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Journal of Family Theory &Review, Volume 15, Issue 4, Page 637-661, December 2023., 2023 Abstract This article examines how the recent controversy about the College Board's A.P. African American Studies course has implications for studies on Black families. In relegating Black feminism and Black queer theory as optional research topics in the course, the College Board failed to recognize the importance of theorizing intersectional ...
Ingrid Banks
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The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Volume 28, Issue 2, Page 141-150, June 2023., 2023 Abstract Based on ethnographic work conducted between 2015 and 2022 at the periphery of Fortaleza, in Northeast Brazil, this article analyzes the work of community activists as a form of subversive care. Women activists, many of whom work for the local public clinics, as social workers with local NGOs, or as schoolteachers, challenge dominant ...
Luminiţa‐Anda Mandache
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Failure and moral distinction in a Ukrainian marketplace of ideas
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 29, Issue S1, Page 62-78, April 2023., 2023 Abstract This essay examines the generative effects of claiming moral failure within a Ukrainian liberal movement for media reform in post‐Maidan, pre‐invasion Ukraine. The reformers wished to reorganize news reporting around the ideals of autonomy, balanced objectivity, impartiality, and corrigibility, which they believed underpinned Western media ...
Taras Fedirko
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EVASION: Prison Escapes and the Predicament of Incarceration in Rio de Janeiro
Cultural Anthropology, Volume 38, Issue 1, Page 36-59, February 2023., 2023 ABSTRACT This article examines Brazil's project of incarceration through the figure of evasion (evasão)—the act of escaping prison custody, often temporarily. Evasion traces a path across the borders of captivity and freedom, as people routinely flee confinement, only to return of their own accord.
DAVID C. THOMPSON
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Bulletin of Latin American Research, Volume 40, Issue 5, Page 696-711, November 2021., 2021 Between 2012 and 2016, the Valongo Wharf Circle employed capoeira to make sense of the complex and enduring legacies of the Valongo Wharf, namely, the impact and intersection of racial discrimination and cycles of redevelopment that have remade Rio and marked the history of the site.
Victoria Adams
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