This ethnography on the law-making process explores woman as a legal category through documents and public records from the Chamber of Deputies in Brasília. The thesis focuses on the running of Bill 1399 from 2003 that ...

This research had the objective to enlarge and to deepen the suburb analysis, using as an object the Gonzaga shantytown, located in São Carlos, in the countryside of the state of São Paulo, and a neighborhood spotted by ...

This research aims to ethnographically study the circuits of exchange that are established between incarnated and disincarnated agents in the activities of a spiritist center in the city of São Carlos (state of São Paulo). ...

The single register is a program created in 2001 to the union databases of a serials of social programs with the target to support the formulation and implementation of public policies to the poor population and extreme ...

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 ...

Exactly one month from completing five years since the Pinheirinho’s eviction, 1.461 of the 1.750 evicted families received the keys to their houses on Pinheirinho dos Palmares II, neighborhood built exclusively to them ...

The reflections presented in this work are the result of two years of ethnographic research realized with the Movimento de Moradia da Região Centro (MMRC) or the Housing Movement of the Centre Region. The MMRC is a social ...

This research is based in the analysis of anthropology of politcs and, through fieldr research, I was able to produce an ethnography of the formation of alliances around the choices of candidates for the 2016 municipal ...

This ethnography was developed among three families that educated their children out of school. The term education out of the school is used here in its broader form to refer to those situations when grown-ups, either ...

Bodies and dances are the key elements to understand this work: together, they create mouvements. These bodies move, learn, are modified, create; dances inform, expose, are updated. These two elements are together in a ...