O texto discute a conceituação da arte visual afro-brasileira e sua abordagem em livros escolares para o ensino de Arte, História Cultura Afro-brasileira Indígena. Também referenciada como negra ou afrodescendente, é possível antecipar que comporta tendências diversas sem ser propriamente um estilo. Obras artistas visuais informados afro-brasileiros não necessariamente são apresentados, sobretu...

Abstract This dispatch examines contemporary activist movements in Angola and their political utopias, namely relevance to citizenship governance, increasing importance the landscape. The authors describe civic mobilization toward implementation of a municipal electoral system (autarquia) argue that it poses an Afro-utopian challenge: issue autarky, or recognition self-organization self-suffici...

AIMS AND METHODS We studied the ethnic origin of cirrhotic patients retrospectively over the 14-year period 1987-2000 and compared the ethnic make-up of the cirrhotic patients with the ethnic make-up of the local catchment population. RESULTS AND CONCLUSIONS Of 381 cirrhotics, 64.1% were white, 29.1% South Asian, 4.7% Afro-Caribbeans and 2.1% other races. These proportions were different from...

A retrospective study was undertaken to determine the incidence and compare the natural history of steroid responsive nephrotic syndrome in Asian, European, and Afro-Caribbean children born in the United Kingdom and living in Birmingham. Patients were identified from hospital admission records during the years 1979-83. Baseline population data were obtained from the same area using city birth s...

This study investigates the notion of perceptual distance among the Afro-Asiatic family. It is based on a “same/different” task involving French subjects and items from 10 languages or dialects (8 Afro-Asiatic: Amharic, Moroccan Arabic, Jordanian Arabic, Tarifit Berber, Touareg Berber, Hausa, Hebrew, Somali and 2 intruders: Armenian and Turkish). The task was judged very difficult by the subjec...

Fieldwork conducted since 1981 has greatly increased the sample of proboscidean fossils from Wadi Moghara, Egypt. The Moghara proboscidean assemblage is taxonomically more diverse than previously suspected, comprising four taxa: Gomphotherium angustidens libycum, Afrochoerodon kisumuensis, cf. Archaeobelodon, and Zygolophodon aegyptensis, sp. nov. Biochronological analysis of the proboscideans ...