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Tag: Brazil

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

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

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

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

Masked Discontent: Corruption in Brazil and Latin America

  Anyone that has traveled to Brazil can not help but be impressed with the warm, light- hearted, friendly spirit … More

Afro-Brazilians, Anthropology, anthropology online, anthropology studies, anthropology topics, Brazil, Brazil Corruption, Latin American Studies, Social Anthropology

Candomblé, Macumba Ritual and Jaré in Brazil

One Sunday in February, 2008 when my wife and I were living in the bairro of Itapúa which is situated … More

African Diaspora Studies, Afro-Brazilians, Anthropology, anthropology online, anthropology studies, anthropology topics, Brazil, Cultural anthropology, Latin American Studies

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