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SOLO MOTHERS AND NEW FORMATIONS OF COLLECTIVE LIFE IN SÃO PAULO'S PERIPHERIES
Cultural Anthropology, Volume 41, Issue 1, Page 163-187, February 2026.ABSTRACT In 2010 in the city of São Paulo, 37 percent of mothers were solo mothers, compared to 16 percent in 1960. This meant that more than 1 million women in 2010 were raising their children without a partner. The increase in solo motherhood is not an isolated phenomenon, but part of deep transformations that have reshuffled entrenched formations of
TERESA P. R. CALDEIRA
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Horizontes, 2016 Resumo Este artigo tem como objetivo discutir a importância de um trabalho pedagógico que contemple a diversidade cultural religiosa nas escolas públicas a partir da experiência e/ou visão de sujeitos candomblecistas.
Ariene Gomes Olveira +1 more
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The real self: authenticity in the USA [PDF]
, 2007 Unpublished manuscript book chapter related to the book Culture and Authenticity (2007), Oxford: Basil ...
Lindholm, Charles
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“Kosi ewe, kosi orisa” (no leaves, no orisha): ecologic experiments in a candomble ‘terreiro’ [PDF]
, 2015 [Resumo] A presente etnopesquisa-ação teve lugar no Ilè Àsè Opó Osogunlade (Ilê Axé Opô Oxogum Ladê), terreiro de candomblé de nação Ketu – localizado no estado de Sergipe, região nordeste do Brasil, liderado pelo Babalaxé Reginaldo Daniel Flores (Ogun ...
Lessa Catalão, Vera Margarida +1 more
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Gender, Work &Organization, Volume 33, Issue 1, Page 105-120, January 2026.ABSTRACT The aim of this research was to understand racial influences on the practices of organizing spaces of sociability by Black Brazilian women. We discuss practice‐based studies (PBS) and racial studies, based on Black feminist, emphasizing race as the basis of organizational practices, especially in organizational spaces in which sociability is a
Josiane Silva de Oliveira +1 more
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A cabana: os sentidos sociais dos objetos religiosos Afro-Brasileiros no extremo norte do Brasil
Antropologia Portuguesa, 2019 O presente artigo está articulado a partir de duas dimensões: a) a comercialização de objetos religiosos afro-brasileiros e b) os sentidos sociais mobilizados pelos sujeitos da pesquisa para qualificar tais objetos e produtos a partir das dimensões ...
Lorran Lima
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Candomblé and the Academic's Tools: Religious Expertise and the Binds of Recognition in Brazil
American Anthropologist, Volume 121, Issue 4, Page 815-829, December 2019., 2019 ABSTRACT Latin American state efforts to recognize ethnically and racially marked populations have focused on knowledge and expertise. This article argues that this form of state recognition does not only call on subaltern groups to present themselves in a frame of expertise.
Elina Inkeri Hartikainen
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Reports of Non‐Physical Beings Assisting in Reiki Sessions
Anthropology of Consciousness, Volume 36, Issue 2, Fall 2025.ABSTRACT The belief in non‐physical beings playing crucial roles in illness and healing is widespread across diverse cultures. Our previous study found reports of alleged non‐physical beings during energy medicine sessions. To evaluate the perceived presence and characteristics of non‐physical beings mentioned during Reiki sessions.
Helané Wahbeh +3 more
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Ritual Theory and Attitudes to Agency in Brazilian Spirit Possession [PDF]
, 2009 This is the post-refereed, pre-print version: "The institute employing the author may post the post-refereed, but pre-print version of that article free of charge on its website.
Engler, Steven
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Objects of “imprisonment”: Diasporic museum collections on ethnographic display
Curator: The Museum Journal, Volume 67, Issue 4, Page 805-820, October 2024.Abstract The article reflects on the place and the narratives in which collections of the Afro‐Brazilian diaspora are inscribed in the context of ethnographic museums in the city of Rio de Janeiro. Presenting a brief sociohistorical analysis of two collections, one in the Civil Police Museum and the other in the Édison Carneiro Folklore Museum, it ...
Bruno Brulon Soares
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