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This book examines the spiritual community of the followers of St. Francis of Wounds in the town of Canindé in northeast Brazil. Their tradition involves pilgrimage and the practice of crafting unique offerings in payment for healing and reversal of bad fortune—a practice predating Christianity and brought to the new world by explorers and early European colonial powers. King argues that these marginalized Brazilians, living in a region where poverty is endemic, use St. Francis of Wounds to replace the medical and social services that the government has failed to provide. She further illustrates the evolution of the regional practice with photographs documenting all stages of this tradition, especially the folk art ex-votos used to pay for the saint’s intervention.
Este livro traz relevantes informações sobre a história do Rio Grande do Norte, estado no nordeste do Brasil, e da região de Angicos, território da antiga Freguesia de São José dos Angicos que abrange atualmente os municípios Angicos, Afonso Bezerra, Pedro Avelino, Fernando Pedroza, Lajes, Pedra Preta, Caiçara do Rio do Vento, Jardim de Angicos e adjacências, abordando, além da história a genealogia dos antigos e atuais habitantes. São inúmeras as famílias apresentadas, abordadas a partir de resumo biográfico de um membro, como exemplo o de Alzira Soriano (Teixeira de Vasconcelos), 1a mulher eleita prefeita na América Latina, Monsenhor João da Mata (Paiva Rocha), Câmara Filho (Rebouças de Oliveira Câmara).
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Bikers converge at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. Thousands flock to a Nevada desert to burn a towering effigy. And the hopeless but hopeful ill journey to Lourdes as they have for centuries. Although pilgrimage may seem an antiquated religious ritual, it remains a vibrant activity in the modern world as pilgrims combine traditional motives—such as seeking a cure for physical or spiritual problems—with contemporary searches for identity or interpersonal connection. That pilgrimage continues to exercise such a strong attraction is testimony to the power it continues to hold for those who undertake these sacred journeys. This volume brings together anthropological and in...
Enzymes are biological molecules of great relevance. In addition to the fundamental role in metabolic reactions, they have diverse applications in industrial processes in generating products of great commercial utility for the most diverse areas. Thus, industries seek to expand research to select microorganisms capable of producing enzymes according to their commercial objectives. Considering the diversity of the microbiota kingdom, as well as the diversity of mode of action of different classes of enzymes, this is an area that deserves constant investments to elucidate new applications, considering that these biological catalysts have great selectivity and a diversity of mode of action, reu...
Do glamour à política: Janaína Dutra em meandros heteronormativos, descreve de maneira pontual e biográfica a trajetória da primeira advogada transexual do Brasil; Janaína Dutra. Tendo como pano de fundo os estudos de gênero, a perspectiva queer e teorias feminista, a obra é uma crítica direta e necessária ao atual contexto heteronormativo que permeia a sociedade mundial e seus diversos meios, como a política, o empreendedor e etc. Além disso, há um destaque para a importância da figura de Janaína como uma importante ativista dos direitos LGBTQI+ e principalmente no combate ao preconceito.
The two-volume set IFIP AICT 566 and 567 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International IFIP WG 5.7 Conference on Advances in Production Management Systems, APMS 2019, held in Austin, TX, USA. The 161 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 184 submissions. They discuss globally pressing issues in smart manufacturing, operations management, supply chain management, and Industry 4.0. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: lean production; production management in food supply chains; sustainability and reconfigurability of manufacturing systems; product and asset life cycle management in smart factories of industry 4.0; variety an...
This is the third in the five-yearly series of surveys of what is happening in rock art studies around the world. As always, the texts reflect something of the great differences in approach and emphasis that exist in different regions. The volume presents examples from Europe, Asia, Africa, and the New World. During the period in question, 1999 to 2004, there have been few major events, although in the field of Pleistocene art many new discoveries have been made, and a new country added to the select list of those with Ice Age cave art. Some regions such as North Africa and the former USSR have seen a tremendous amount of activity, focusing not only on recording but also on chronology, and the conservation of sites. With the global increase of tourism, the management of rock art sites that are accessible to the public is a theme of ever-growing importance.