This thesis search, through an intensive ethnographic description, to inquire about the caiçaras movements around their most celebrated aesthetical-political expression, the fandango caiçara – acknowledged as a Brazilian ...

In the context of restructuring the indigenous health policies over the last 20 years in Brazil, and the consequent creation of the Special Sanitary Indigenous Districts since 1999, the Indigenous Health Agents appear as ...

This dissertation is an ethnography of the quilombolas – rural black communities – located in the North region of the State of Minas Gerais, their luta [struggle], movements and an-danças [wayfaring]. Following my quilombola ...

The research at hand accounts for São Carlos street paths. In an attempt to avoid defining them, as it is often the case with public policies and even a large part of academical studies, through denominations that they ...

This research deals with the complexities involving the cases of death by bàtòtàka, a spell of "tying the throat" among the Karajá. The objective is, based on the ethnographic analysis of suicide cases in several indigenous ...

Having as a starting point Adriano Pukimapɨwëteri Yanomami's narrative about the arrival of non-indigenous and their schools, this dissertation proposes to reflect on the relationships historically built through the school ...

The early years of the 20th century brought with it the discovery – perhaps the invention – of mosquitoes' ability to transmit pathogens. Occupying, since then, a highlighted space in medical literature, studies about these ...

The Senegalese present on the streets of the city of Passo Fundo (RS/Brazil) have called my attention since 2010, when I joined the University of Passo Fundo as a professor. By attending Sunday muslim meetings, I realized ...

This dissertation is dedicated to describe what prisoners from Ceará write, how they write and what effects this writing produces and what place it occupies in the prison context. I expand the ethnographic field work ...

This dissertation is based on an ethnographic study on the conversion of martial arts into techniques of hand-to-hand combat and self-defense, applied to military and police training. Martial arts appear in the field with ...