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 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 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 ...

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 ...

This research tried to comprehend the ways tattooists who were Japanese descendants in Brazil go through and think processes of difference construction. It also focused on the ways these processes are related to issues ...

Through an ethnography based on my own sports biography, I demonstrate the coexistence of powerful conceptions about volleyball that make it appear as “female sport”, “women's sport” and/or “sport of fagots”, among other ...

This is an ethnography of immigrant-refugees that live or lived in the city of São Paulo which intends to describe the experiences of immigration-refuge in the city. Addressing the processes of consideration of ...

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 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 ...

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 ...