African Gods in Contemporary Brazil

[Health advocacy in contemporary Brazil].

The concept of health advocacy is presented by means of a description of its elements, practice and agents. The need to formulate this concept derives from one of the main functions of the university: the identification of social demands and the presentation of alternatives that aim at eliminating obstacles to their fulfillment. Social participation, as guaranteed by the 1988 Constitution, unde...

Race, Gender, and Ethnicity in Contemporary Brazil

An African visitor in Brazil

A Canadian man came to the hospital with history of daily fever in the afternoon, for five days, ranging from 38.5oC to 39oC, headache, muscle pain and asthenia. He is a photographer enthusiastic about wild life and had been to Zimbabwe for 14 days, where he filmed groups of lions and animals of the African megafauna. Upon examination, he presented a hyperemic skin lesion in the posterior regio...

Belief in moralizing gods

According to Alexander’s [Alexander, R. D. (1987). The biology of moral systems. New York: Aldine de Gruyter] theory of morality, human social groups became large as a result of between-group competition over preferred habitats and resources, but although larger social groups are more successful in competition, they also experience more pressures to fission. Morality unites a society by limitin...

<Insertions>: Self and Other in Contemporary African Art

This essay focuses on a group of contemporary African artis s who execute their work using their own i mages, or inscribe their own bodies into the final configurati n. Executed in the installation genre and influenced by Ideas of performance art, the works of these artl is have been primarily motivated by the quest for self-representation, interrogation of their own €xl`ste tial circumstances,...