This thesis is dedicated to optical mechanisms that enable the enunciation of Brazilian jurisprudence. To effectively occupy its authority position, the Brazilian Superior Court of Justice (SCJ) needs, on one hand, to ...

This dissertation's objective was to make an ethnography of the relationships established between the caiçara communities of Baía dos Castelhanos, in the archipelago municipality of Ilhabela, and the various constraints ...

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 ...

Jongo is a common dance in southeastern Brazil and performed by black groups or communities - urban or rural. It is recognized as a traditional practice in maintaining drumming, dancing, dress, song form and articulation, ...

In this thesis, I examine the emergence of a democratic and humanist reasoning in the core of the public security thought, elaborated in São Paulo at the end of the Military Dictatorship. I try to explain how this ...

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 ...

Memory and ecology are the subjects that form the fundamental ethnographic relationship of this thesis. My central argument is that Anthropology has distanced memory from its ecological and environmental issues. Faced with ...

This effort analyzes the possible constructions of nascituru (unborn human) as a person under Brazilian legislation. In May of 2010 was approved, by one committee of the Deputy´s Chamber, the Law´s Project 478 of 2007 ...

The research observes two forced displacement experiences of Syrian refugees in the city of São Paulo, whose main source of income is the sale of typical food from their place of origin. The commercialization of food by ...

The dissertation aims to accomplish an anthropological analysis on the family of the militaries. It seeks to understand the peculiar relationship between Army and Family, in which the very idea of Military Family indicates ...