... and Poverty in Brazil, 1980–1995.” Background paper to World Development Report 90. Washington, D.C.: World Bank. Furtado , C. 1982 . A Nova Dependênda . Rio de Janeiro: Paz e Terra. Gall , Norman . 1991 . “The Floating World of Brazilian Inflation.” São Paulo: Fernand Braudel Institute...

... in the Rhetoric of Brazilian Politics Carla Costa Teixeira arely has honor been studied in the context of modern political relationships. RR From Marcel Mauss’s pioneering study The Gift (1924) until John Peristiany and Julian Pitt-Rivers’s...

... protests of the project in the past, but no record of any coverage of the events of June is to be found on its website. Fox News reproduced no pictures of any of the protests. Instead, it ran a story about Brazilian tribal leaders holding Belo Monte engineers hostage. The images appeared in several...

...K. Drybread When suspected rapists are detained in Brazil, they are frequently subject to brutal punishments: sodomy, torture, or summary execution. This article examines the competing logics of gender and justice that intersect in Brazilian prisons as authorities sometimes attempt to protect...

...Samira Bueno; Graham Denyer Willis; Shamus Khan; Madiha Tahir Between 2013 and 2016, police in one Brazilian city killed 3,287 people—66.5 percent of whom were black. It might not seem surprising, then, that this place is also one of the only in the world that has a prison just for police...

...Beatriz Jaguaribe; Maurício Lissovsky This essay offer a comparative analysis of three sets of photographs made in different periods of Brazilian history: portraits of urban slaves made by the photographer Christiano Júnior in the mid-nineteenth century during the Second Empire; photographs...

..., Austin, March 7–9, 1994. Braga , Julio . 1992. “Candomblé: Força e Resistência.” Afro-Asia 15 : 13 -17. Brown , Diana De G. , and Mario Bick. 1987 . “Religion, Class and Context: Continuities and Discontinuities in Brazilian Umbanda.” American Ethnologist 14 ( 1 ): 73 -93...

...: Longman. Mattelart , M. , and A. Mattelan. 1990 . The Carnival of Images: Brazilian Fiction Television . New York: Bergin & Garvey. Meirelles , F. , and M. Tas. 1988 . “Produção independente—idéias e propostas” [Independent production—ideas and proposals]. Pages 173–89 in C. Macedo...

... comments: “Throughout Brazil thousands of postcards were spread . . . postcards that depicted less the Corcovado or the forest of Tijuca or the palm trees of the Jardim Botânico—marvels that were more for Englishmen rather than Brazilians to see. . . . In these post- opposite Interiors of Palace...

... and in the flow of media images, consumer goods, and new cultural identities have caused a crisis of representation of the city, of the favelas, and of the “national imagined community.” Conversely, the democratization of Brazilian society has brought...

...Luiz Paulo Lima; Scott Bradwell; Seamus Walsh © 2000 by Duke University Press 2000 Luiz Paulo Lima is an award-winning photographer with the Brazilian newspaper O Estado de São Paulo . His material has been widely published and exhibited. Scott Bradwell is a doctoral...

... state, international institutions, and the phar- maceutical industry. Some 170,000 people are currently taking anti-HIV drugs that are paid for by the Brazilian government. Both AIDS mortality and the use of hospital services have subsequently fallen by more than 50 percent, and this policy...

... and Brazilian governments fund and support the infrastructure and urban networks that cut through Guarani territory. Dersa, the enterprise responsible for constructing the Rodoanel road, paid environmental compensations to the Guarani communities living near the road construction on Jaraguá Indigenous Land...

... Business Reports, 1966). production takes place in the local terrain, but it remains largely invisible to the 459 consumer. Television from the The establishment of a duty-free zone coincided with Brazilian military leaders Borderless...

... the most salient characteristic of Brazilian cities. But in the past decades both the marks and the meanings of inequality and the rela- tionships and spaces in which they are manifested and reproduced have changed considerably. There are new...

... in the mercurial ter- rain of belly imagery that Mbembe has identified. Predictably, “private” television images provided symbols for public mockery. When the Brazilian dictatorship appointed extra senators to pack the Senate following a bad election, the people immediately dubbed them “Bionic Senators...

.... Over time, it became a little more formalized. Campaign theme lines began to be franchised. Not executions, but theme lines. "Things go better with Coke" went all over the world. I remember, as a kid listening to the radio in Brazil: it was the same song, but with Brazilian lyrics. The words...

... America. Not coincidentally, Latin American cinema and literature have turned away from the magical realism of the generations of the 1960s and 1970s to a new realism that insistently pursues what Brazilian literary scholar Beatriz Jaguaribe calls “the shock of the real” — the raw portrayal...

... to be trained in the same manner that war correspondents are trained. BJ: Violence is all-pervasive in Brazilian cities. But the sensation of fear and vio- lence is also spurred by the media. In fact, there seems to be an avid dispute for media visibility by the drug dealers, favela dwellers...

... tography and Brazilian social imaginaries can thus be read in relation to Callahan’s discussion of Chinese anxieties over territorial integrity and narratives of national humiliation. In both essays, the nation is figured as a future-oriented machine —  a space of becoming — but it is mobilized...