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Prefácio Maria Josefina G. Sant’Anna Apresentação Maria da Luz Alves Ferreira Notas do organizador Elton Dias Xavier Capítulo 1 O julgamento moral dos suspeitos de praticarem crimes contra o patrimônio na comarca de Montes Claros-MG Alexandre Ricardo Damasceno Rocha Capítulo 2 O consumo na perspectiva antropológica Aurenice da Mota Teixeira Capítulo 3 Relações entre utopia e cidade nas ciências sociais Elton Dias Xavier Capítulo 4 Programa bolsa família: pobreza, olhar materno e porta de saída Juliane Leite Ferreira Capítulo 5 Serviço Social no sociojurídico: reflexões sobre o processo de trabalho Leni Maria Pereira Silva Capítulo 6 Folia de reis e identidade na comunidade quilombola agreste Marco Antônio Caldeira Neves Diálogos interdisciplinares entre ciências sociais, saúde e medicina Maria Patrícia da Silva Capítulo 8 Discriminação, estigma e retraimento no contexto das desigualdades educacionais e raciais na contemporaneidade Maria Railma Alves Capítulo 9 A implantação e implementação da Lei 10.639/03 nos cursos de formação docente Zilmar Santos Cardoso
Amartya Sen is the most respected and well-known economist of his time. This book is a synthesis of his thought, viewing economic development as a means to extending freedoms rather than an end in itself. By widening his outlook to include poverty, tyranny, lack of opportunity, individual rights, and political structures, Professor Sen gives a stimulating and enlightening overview of the development process. His compassionate yet rigorous analysis will appeal to all those interested in the fate of the developing world, from general reader to specialist.
The Vigorous Core of Our Nationality explores conceptualizations of regional identity and a distinct population group known as nordestinos in northeastern Brazil during a crucial historical period. Beginning with the abolition of slavery and ending with the demise of the Estado Novo under Getœlio Vargas, Stanley E. Blake offers original perspectives on the paradoxical concept of the nordestino and the importance of these debates to the process of state and nation building. Since colonial times, the Northeast has been an agricultural region based primarily on sugar production. The area's population was composed of former slaves and free men of African descent, indigenous Indians, European wh...
Choice Recommended Read This volume tackles the critical question of whether people change or whether they remain relatively constant across the lifespan. Much existing literature in psychology has largely endorsed the concept of stability. Indeed, in many people’s minds, the person is understood to be set in stone, as a function of early socialization and reaching a particular stage of development, evolutionary processes, or traits that are hard-wired from the beginning by genes and biology. However, in recent years, important scientific developments in theory and research concerning the psychology of change have emerged. In contrast to the commonly held conception of the individual as fi...
Writing about World Literature, a new guide created to accompany the Norton Anthology, covers the processes and particulars of writing in the world literature survey course. Starting with the essential question, "What is Academic Writing," the guide takes students step-by-step through the writing process - from generating ideas to researching to revising. It includes an entire chapter on the different types of writing about world literature - including textual and contextual analyses.
"A brilliant and sensitive portrayal not only of Canudos, but of the sertão more generally. By making the defenders of Canudos less spectacular and exceptional, [Levine] has rescued them from the museum of curiosities and restored them to the mainstream of backland life. It is about time we had such nuanced understanding about this tragic misunderstanding."—Steven C. Topik, Luso-Brazilian Review
This collection explores the varieties of banditry in Latin America and provides a major comparative testing of Hobsbawm's model of the social bandit. Comprised of a unique collection of essays, it contributes to a more accurate understanding of bandit leaders and followers, as well as to the analysis of banditry as a social phenomenon.
A collection of articles concentrated on the Enlightenment in France argues for a scaled-down interpretation of the significance of the movement.