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Contains scholarly evaluations of books and book chapters as well as conference papers and articles published worldwide in the field of Latin American studies. Covers social sciences and the humanities in alternate years.
First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.
Este livro conta a trajet6ria de uma missionaria que nasceu no interior paulista. A autora relata os fatos vividos desde a sua infancia de uma menina pobre do Brasil, que venceu os obstaculos par sua fe em Jesus Cristo, atraves de mementos de dar, foi chamada para uma missao, de pregar o evangelho de Jesus Cristo, nos Estados Unidos da America. Este livro relata que somente com a forc;:a divina poderia suportar o que passou. mudou-se para outro pais, realizando, assim, o sonho de seus pais, que no seu nascimento ofereceram-na para Deus, para que ela fosse uma missionaria. A sua hist6ria de fe , relata que passou par mementos de dor, suspense, lagrimas, ternura, amor, inseguranc;:a, na fascin...
"In this work, Desirée Poets posits that contemporary Brazil is a settler colony. Based on ethnographic research and her experiences growing up in Brazil, the book tells the stories of communities in Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, and Belo Horizonte-two quilombos, two Indigenous movements, and a favela-to unravel the continuities and discontinuities of Brazil's settler colonial structure. As Poets argues, settler colonialism is renewed through expectations of Indigenous and quilombola authenticity as well as through militarization, incarceration, genocide, and marginalization that continuously attempt to dispossess and eliminate Black and Indigenous peoples from the political landscape, includ...
The book presents a series of ethnographic studies, which illustrate issues of wider importance, such as the role of cultural traditions, concepts and learning procedures in the development of formal (or mathematical) thinking outside of the western tradition. It focuses on research at the crossroads of anthropology and ethnomathematics to document indigenous mathematical knowledge and its inclusion in specific cultural patterns. More generally, the book demonstrates the heuristic value of crossing ethnographical, anthropological and ethnomathematical approaches to highlight and analyze—or "formalize" with a pedagogical outlook—indigenous mathematical knowledge. The book is divided into ...
Lonely Planets Brazil is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Marvel at Iguacu Falls, take a jungle trip, and frolick in the waves at Ipanema Beach; all with your trusted travel companion. Get to the heart of Brazil and begin your journey now! Inside Lonely Planets Brazil Travel Guide: Up-to-date information - all businesses were rechecked before publication to ensure they are still open after 2020s COVID-19 outbreak NEW top experiences feature - a visually inspiring collection of Brazils best experiences and where to have them NEW pull-out, passport-size 'Just Landed' card with wi-fi, ATM and transport ...
Capoeira is an Afro-Brazilian martial art now spreading over the rest of the world and this book, the only complete history of the art in the English language, traces the history of the martial art and examines its influence.
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