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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"Afro-Brazilian"”.

  1. A Tropical Flour: Manioc in the Afro-Brazilian World, 1500-1800

    Leestma, Joseph

    … crop manioc [Manihot esulenta] throughout the Afro-Portuguese world between ca. 1500 to ca.1800. In addition to tracing the spatial movement of the plant, this thesis will also show how manioc was culturally redefined as an African crop and how this effected its reception and meaning upon …

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  2. Consuming Brazil: Afro Brazilian Religion as a Base for Actor Training

    Roberts, Corey Justin2014

    … In this study I explore one such culture, the Afro Brazilian religion Umbanda. First, I examine its formation to illuminate how the religion itself performed (or served as a site for cultural interaction) throughout history. Then, I explore the practice of the religion both apart from and in …

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  3. An Afro-Brazilian Landscape: African Oil Palms and Socioecological Change in Bahia, Brazil

    Watkins, CaseGeography and Anthropology2021

    … of African oil palms in the northeastern Brazilian state of Bahia has for centuries supplied local alimentary and spiritual demands for palm oil—an essential resource in Afro-Brazilian cultures. Drawing on fieldwork, ethnography, archives, GIScience, quantitative analysis, and travelers’, …

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  4. The Afro-Brazilian: An Expression of Popular Culture in Selected Examples of Bahian Literature

    Dreller, GeraldUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign2014

    Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-11T17:41:13Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7511810.pdf: 6137681 bytes, checksum: 024a6aeb0c3916f0a0179edadd73783f (MD5) Previous issue date: 1974

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  5. What works in rural Afro-Brazilian communities? : impressions of successful government and non-governmental interventions

    Morrison, Judith A. (Judith Anne)Massachusetts Institute of Technology1997

    Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1997.

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  6. The International Rise of Afro-Brazilian Modernism in the Age of African Decolonization and Black Power

    Lapin Dardashti, AbigailThe Graduate School and University Center of The City University of New York2026

    <p>Two competing artistic representations of Brazilian blackness emerged from 1966 to 1988. The first began in 1966 when the Brazilian government positioned itself as a leading diplomatic partner for newly independent African nations by showcasing black Brazilian art in West Africa. Through …

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  7. Women, the city, and spatial citizenship examining identity formation and employment amongst Afro-Brazilian women in Rio De Janeiro and Belo Horizonte

    Ude, Obiamaka OMassachusetts Institute of Technology2017

    … and is reflected in employment outcomes for Afro-Brazilian women.

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  8. Diálogo entre obras de arte: a performance “Oju omodé - Olhar de criança” e a coleção de painéis da sala Carybé do Museu Afro-Brasileiro/UFBA

    Freitas, Vinícius de AbreuFaculdade de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas2021

    … to dialogue with an exhibition center of the Afro-Brazilian Museum, linked to the Federal University of Bahia, which was named by the institution as the Carybé room. This room has carved wooden panels, which show representations of some deities from the Afro-Brazilian mythology of Candomblé. …

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  9. Prestructuring Multilayer Perceptrons based on Information-Theoretic Modeling of a <i>Partido-Alto</i>-based Grammar for Afro-Brazilian Music: Enhanced Generalization and Principles of Parsimony, including an Investigation of Statistical Paradigms

    Vurkaç, Mehmet

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  10. A Call for Liberation: Aleijadinho's 'Prophets' as Capoeiristas

    Bowen, Monica Jayne2008

    <p>Throughout the late eighteenth century, many Brazilians became inspired by the political revolutions of the French and American colonies and sought for a similar type of revolution, hoping to gain independence from the Portuguese. One nationalistic group, the "Inconfidência Mineira," probably …

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  11. "Orixás do Dique": estudo sobre religião e espaço público em Salvador-Bahia

    Goes, Alexandre dos SantosFaculdade de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas2019

    … historically constituted and used by the Afro-Brazilian cults. It was also necessary to recover the so-called "Bahia afro", that is, the intellectual, artistic and political circuit of exaltation of some Afro-Brazilian elements printed in the Bahian culture and encoded in a language …

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  12. Educational Encounters: (Re)Writing Identity in Twentieth-Century Brazil and the U.S.

    Soares, GeorgiaHarvard University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences2025

    … articulations of identity in twentieth-century Brazilian and U.S. fiction through representations of education. Focusing primarily on Afro-descendant and women authors—including James Weldon Johnson, Rachel de Queiroz, Romeu Crusoé, Ralph Ellison, Lygia Fagundes Telles, and Angela Jackson—I …

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  13. Creating inclusive institutions : race-based affirmative action policies in higher education in the United States and Brazil

    Weninger, Priscilla E.University of Texas at Austin2012

    … for enduring structural barriers faced by its Afro-Brazilian population in its pursuit for social and economic mobility. As Brazil increases its status as a global economic power, the State has identified an urgent need to quickly integrate its vast Afro-Brazilian population into positions of …

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  14. Atotô obaluayê ajuberu: um olhar semiológico sobre a indumentária de obaluayê

    Abrantes, Samuel SampaioUniversidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro1996

    … identity and of ideological and socialcultural Afro-Brazilian distinctive properties, which are established through an outlook on the foundations and the carpentry of the cults and that shape in themselves the possibilities of symbolic investiments.

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  15. Trails by a river: for large orchestra and electronic sounds (MAX/MSP)

    Barros, Alfredo Jacinto de, 1966-The University of Texas at Austin2007

    … of certain parts are derived from some modern Afro-Brazilian folk genres, such as candomblé, mostly present in the Northeastern part of that country. The electronic part is conceived as a timbral extension of the orchestral sounds, and the MAX/MSP patcher used to generate it has a graphical …

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  16. Religion and Architecture: Designing a temple of Candomble in Salvador Bahia, Brazil

    Robles, Joaquin G.Virginia Tech2007

    … during times of slavery and is the root of Afro-Brazilian culture. In the chaotic world of favelas (Portuguese for slums) the religion of Candomble brings people together and gives order to the community. The neighborhood's current temple also functions as the local priest's home. As an area …

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  17. Stairway to Aruanda: Creating an Accessible Spiritual World in the Religion of Umbanda

    Frias, Erin E.2015

    This thesis is a study about how the Brazilian religion of Umbanda creates an accessible spiritual world based on inclusion. Past research on the phenomena of spirit possession/incorporation has led to a solid grouping of theories which have been argued to a state of stagnation. These theoretical …

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  18. Tamarind - the Ethnic Minority Film and a way beyond

    Koff, RashidaCentre for Film and Media Studies2005

    … filmmakers; Mexican-American filmmakers; Afro-Brazilian filmmakers; Asian-American filmmakers. The list goes on and on. The one common thread is that these people felt a need to provide another point of view other than the ones seen in mainstream film and television. Their films have been …

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  19. A COR DA PÓS-GRADUAÇÃO DO CCA/UFPB: UM ESTUDO SOBRE AS QUESTÕES ETNICAS E PRECONCEITO

    Mélo, Gerlani da CostaUniversidade Federal da Paraíba2017

    … are still many prejudices about the african-Brazilian community. Our society is permeated by the culture and ideology brought by Portuguese colonialism, this demonstrates a prevailing white domination until the present day in different social segments, even after the end of slavery in 1888. …

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  20. The work/family experience in the informal labor market: Evidence from informally employed mothers in Brazil

    Matthew, Lenore E.University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign2018

    … work/family experience as lived by low-income, Afro-Brazilian, informally employed mothers in the city of Salvador, Brazil. Using a phenomenological approach and Giorgi’s descriptive analytical method, six themes with 21 sub-themes emerged from interviews with 24 mothers in Salvador. The study …

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