Gender and Its Role in the Resilience of Local Medical Systems of the Fulni-ô People in NE Brazil: Effects on Structure and Functionality. [PDF]
Evid Based Complement Alternat Med, 2019 Ethnobotanical studies focused on understanding how local medical systems are functionally maintained suggest that utilitarian redundancy and knowledge transmission are factors that influence the resilience of the system. However, to date, there have not been any studies that analyze these factors in relation to the variables that influence the ...
Torres-Avilez W +4 more
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Artisanal Extraction and Traditional Knowledge Associated with Medicinal Use of Crabwood Oil (Carapa guianensis Aublet.) in a Peri-Urban Várzea Environment in the Amazon Estuary. [PDF]
Evid Based Complement Alternat Med, 2016 Várzea forests of the Amazon estuary contain species of importance to riverine communities. For example, the oil extracted from the seeds of crabwood trees is traditionally used to combat various illnesses and as such artisanal extraction processes have been maintained. The objectives of this study were to (1) describe the process involved in artisanal
Nardi M +5 more
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Landscape semaphore: Seeing mud and mangroves in the Brazilian Northeast
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 46, Issue 3, Page 626-641, September 2021., 2021 In 20th‐century Northeast Brazilian representations of the landscape of the estuarine Atlantic coast we find a re‐calibration of perspective that is foreshortened, embodied, and muddied. These works produce a counter‐hegemonic political aesthetics of nature that unsettles the fixities of colonial ways of seeing space, nature, and territory.
Archie Davies
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Blessed Beats: Religious Profanation and Evangelical Syncretization from Samba to Carnaval Gospel
The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Volume 26, Issue 2, Page 324-353, June 2021., 2021 Abstract This article examines Evangelical carnaval in Brazil to argue that anthropological writing on syncretization expresses a theoretical gap or shortcoming. In several large Brazilian cities, Evangelicals are currently organizing carnaval parades and performing samba music with percussion instruments.
Martijn Oosterbaan
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Energy at the Junction of the Rivers Negro and Solimões, Contributors of the Amazon River, in the Brazilian Amazon. [PDF]
Int Sch Res Notices, 2014 The Negro and Solimoes rivers join in front of the Brazilian city of Manaus to form the Amazon River. This “meeting of the waters” is a natural phenomenon of great aesthetic beauty that has been the focus of attention of researchers all over the world in various scientific fields.
Beluco A, de Souza PK.
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Chancela da Paisagem Cultural: avanços e retrocessos em contextos institucionais mutantes [PDF]
Cadernos NAUI, 2023 O artigo contextualiza a criação da Chancela da Paisagem Cultural Brasileira pelo Instituto do Patrimônio Histórico e Artístico Nacional em 2009 e os desafios que permeiam, até hoje, sua efetiva implementação pelo órgão nacional.
Maria Regina Weissheimer +1 more
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Sem Democracia não há Patrimônio
Revista Projetar, 2023 O ensaio trata dos problemas relacionados com a preservação do Patrimônio Cultural decorrentes dos atos terroristas que caracterizaram a tentativa de golpe impetrada contra o Estado Democrático de Direito no Brasil.
Andrey Rosenthal Schlee
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Paisagem cultural das Missões Jesuíticas Guaranis: o desafio de promover uma leitura patrimonial da paisagem [PDF]
, 2016 Em 80 anos de atuação no âmbito da política do patrimônio cultural brasileiro, novos desafios cada vez mais complexos põem em xeque a capacidade de resposta do Instituto do Patrimônio Histórico e Artístico Nacional – Iphan.
Brito, Marcelo, Giannecchini, Ana Clara
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Políticas Culturais em Revista, 2016 Este texto apresenta uma síntese do processo de implementação da política de salvaguarda do Patrimônio Cultural Imaterial Registrado pelo Instituto do Patrimônio Histórico e Artístico Nacional – IPHAN. De 2000 até hoje já há experiência significativa e
Morena Roberto Levy Salama +2 more
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Conservar e punir, normas legais e infralegais de preservação do patrimônio no Brasil
Patryter, 2023 A presente pesquisa tem por objetivo investigar a produção de verdade, conforme proposta por Foucault, no interior das chamadas operações de “vigilância semântica”: conservação e restauração de bens culturais. Dessa forma, buscou-se analisar ocorrências
Eduardo Ferreira Moura
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