virtual brazilian anthropology

Vibrant. v.8 n.2 | 07–12/2011

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Feminist Letters
Mariza Corrêa
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Érase una vez en Taracuá… Sobre el origen del mundo – tradición cristiana, teoría científica y pensamiento indígena
Gilton Mendes dos Santos
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Your ID, please? The Henry Gates vs. James Crowley Event from an Anthropological Perspective
Mariza Peirano
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Dossier “”Anthropology of Kinship”

Guest Editors: Marcio Ferreira da Silva, Adriana Piscitelli

Foreword
Marcio Ferreira da Silva, Adriana Piscitelli

Compadrio in Rural Brazil: Structural Analysis of a Ritual Institution
Antonio A. Arantes
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Perspectives théoriques dans l’étude de la Famille, de l’enfance et de la parenté : Un regard à partir de la comparaison entre adoption et P.M.A.
Débora Allebrandt
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Les coparentalités entre gays et lesbiennes en France: le point de vue des pères
Flávio Luiz Tarnovski
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The weave of kinship and the ever-mobile fishing village of Barra de Ararapira (Superagüi Island, Guaraqueçaba, Paraná, Brazil)
Juliane Bazzo
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“Making Families”: Child mobility and familiar organization in Cape Verde
Andréa Lobo
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Kinship and Differentialities: Alternatives to Identity and to Ethnic Frontiers in The Study of Migrations
Igor José de Renó Machado
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Weaving Relatives: Elopement and Kinship in a Southern Brazilian Community
Juliana P. Lima Caruso
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Blood and Other Substances: New Reproductive Technologies and Adoption in Popular Groups in Southern Brazil
Pedro Nascimento
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Families, Nations and Generations in Women’s International Migration
Parry Scott
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The De-Kinning of Birthmothers: Reflections on Maternity and Being Human
Claudia Fonseca
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Marriage Between “Close Relatives”: Considerations about Kinship Between the Guarani Nhandéva on Western Paraná
Jovane Gonçalves dos Santos
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From Socio-politics to Kinship Dynamics Among the Kaingang
Cinthia Creatini da Rocha
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Pós-Dradiviano Sateré-Mawé: parentesco y rituales de afinabiliadad
Gabriel O. Alvarez
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Creating Affinity: Formal Friendship and Matrimonial Alliances Among the Jê People and the Apinaje Case
Odair Giraldin
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Déjà Lu

Kinship Studies in Brazil
Roque de Barros Laraia

 

Dossier “Urban Anthropology”

Guest Editors: Gilberto Velho e Karina Kuschnir

Foreword
Gilberto Velho & Karina Kuschnir

Urban Narrators: Ruth Cardoso
Ana Luiza Carvalho da Rocha e Cornelia Eckert
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Urban Narrators: Eunice Durham
Ana Luiza Carvalho da Rocha e Cornelia Eckert
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Urban Anthropology: Interdisciplinarity and Boundaries of Knowledge
Gilberto Velho
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Brazilians in Lisbon: Immigrant Association and the Meaning of Urban Spaces
Alessandra Siqueira Barreto
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Pioneers and Entrepreneurs: Bio/Ethnographic Notes Towards an Anthropology of Urban Growth
Cristina Patriota de Moura
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The Experience of Pregnancy: Subjectivity and Social Relations
Claudia Barcellos Rezende
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Networks and Territorialities: an ethnographic approach to the so-called cracolândia [“crackland”] in São Paulo
Heitor Frúgoli Jr., Enrico Spaggiari
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Architecture Inside Out: Urban Transformations Through the Perception of Demolition Engineers
Alberto Goyena
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Drawing the City: a proposal for an ethnographic study in Rio de Janeiro
Karina Kuschnir
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