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Category: Latin American Studies

Latin American studies critically examines the history, culture, politics, and experiences of Latin Americans in Latin America and often also elsewhere such as Latinos/Hispanics in the United States. Latin American studies is interdisciplinary from numerous disciplines such as sociology, history, literature, political science, geography, anthropology, gender studies, and economics. Though Latin America is a fluid concept, with no fixed definition, Latin American studies is usually quite open and often includes or is closely associated with, for instance, Latino studies, Caribbean studies, and transatlantic studies.

Religious Colonizing in Brazil

After Bolsonaro was elected President of Brazil, I sort of lost the desire to write anything more about the country. … More

Anthropology, Cultural anthropology, Ethnography, Social Anthropology

Brazil’s Dichotomous Treatment of Corruption – PT 3

Brazil had an opportunity to be a leading, democratic, Latin American country but lost its sense of direction. The political … More

Anthropology, anthropology journals, anthropology online, Cultural anthropology, Ethnography, Latin American Studies, Social Anthropology

Brazil’s Dichotomous Treatment of Corruption – PT 2

After the end of the Brazilian military dictatorship, the Liberal Front Party (LFP), Democratic Social Party (PMDB) and Brazilian Social … More

Anthropology, anthropology online, anthropology studies, Brazil, Cultural anthropology, Ethnography

Decline of Brazil’s Middle Class

Although he was a left-wing, socialist president for two consecutive terms, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva demonstrated that a left-wing … More

Anthropology, anthropology online, anthropology topics, Cultural anthropology, Ethnography, Latin American Studies, Social Anthropology

Expatriates: Dilemmas and Misconceptions

Those who have chosen to become permanent expatriates at some time or another experience a very disturbing and confusing dilemma. … More

Anthropology, anthropology online, anthropology studies, anthropology topics, Brazil, Cultural anthropology, Ethnography, Latin American Studies

Affirmative Action in Brazil: is it necessary?

Recently, I came across an article in Lasa Forum Spring 2013 edition in which Edward Telles and Marcelo Paixão assessed … More

Anthropology, anthropology journals, anthropology online, anthropology topics, Brazil, Cultural anthropology, Ethnography, Latin American Studies, Social Anthropology

Indispensability of Medical Anthropology

Medical anthropology, although considered a subcategory in anthropology, has been making contributions to medicine and public health since the development … More

Anthropology, anthropology documentaries, anthropology lectures, anthropology online, anthropology topics, Cultural anthropology, Ethnography, Medical Anthropology, Social Anthropology

Black American Men and Brazilian Women

Any attempt to understand black American men and their relationships with Brazilian women must first consider cultural characteristics and the … More

African American Anthropology, African Diaspora Studies, Anthropology, anthropology online, cross cultural communication, cross cultural communication issues, cross cultural communications, cross cultural relationship, Cultural anthropology, Latin American Studies, Social Anthropology

US – Brazil Relations: the dynamics of consciousness and empowerment

In 2012, Dr. Roberto Mangabeira Unger, Roscoe Pound Professor of Law, Harvard University Law School lectured at the David Rockefeller … More

Anthropology, anthropology journals, anthropology online, Brazil, Cultural anthropology, Latin American Studies, Social Anthropology

Tristes Tropiques: Revisited

When I first encountered Lévi-Strauss in graduate school, I thought the title of his monumental work sounded strange. At that … More

Anthropology, anthropology online, anthropology studies, anthropology topics, Brazil, Cultural anthropology, Ethnography, Latin American Studies, Social Anthropology

Self-imposed Discrimination in Brazil

When I arrived in Brazil seven years ago as an American anthropologist seeking to discover if Brazil would be a … More

Anthropology, anthropology journals, anthropology online, anthropology studies, anthropology topics, Brazil, Ethnography, Latin American Studies, Social Anthropology

Traditional Family Values in Urbanized Societies

This article presents a brief discussion about the importance of traditional cultural and family values in urbanized, industrialized societies. In … More

Anthropology, anthropology journals, anthropology online, anthropology studies, anthropology topics, Ethnography, Family, Social Anthropology, Sociology

Unemployment & Poverty in Brazil

Although there is considerable literature on conditions of unemployment and poverty in many modernized countries, there is a penuriously small … More

Anthropology, anthropology online, anthropology studies, anthropology topics, Brazil, Ethnography, Latin American Studies, Poverty, Social Anthropology

The Art of Capoeira

There are many holidays celebrated in the city of Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. And on almost every occasion, you can see … More

Anthropology, anthropology online, anthropology studies, anthropology topics, Brazil, Ethnography, History, Latin American Studies, Sociology

Revolta dos Búzios – 1798

This review is organized as a history of the diverse elements of scholarship by which the field of African Diaspora … More

Afro-Brazilians, Anthropology, anthropology online, anthropology studies, anthropology topics, Brazil, Ethnography, History, Latin American Studies
anthropology, social, cultural, ethnography, ethnology, social anthropology, cultural anthropology, medical anthropology, urban anthropology, visual anthropology, , anthropology documentaries, anthropology lectures, anthropology, online courses, perspective in anthropology

Landless Workers Movement (MST)

Recently, I witnessed for the second time a demonstration by the Landless Worker’s Movement (Movimento dos Trabalhadores Sem Terra, or … More

Afro-Brazilians, anthropology journals, anthropology online, anthropology studies, anthropology topics, Latin American Studies, Movimento dos Trabalhadores Sem Terra, Social Anthropology, Urban Anthropology

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