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This paper presents an analysis of Angolan politics since independence up to nowadays from two opposite political standings strongly influencing the postindependence path of the country, explaining not only the disputes at stake but also the policies and strategies adopted. This paper contrasts the positions characterized as liberal national-pragmatism and Marxist progressive internationalism, according to criteria of ideology influencing political management, political economy and foreign policy. The analysis identifies the matrix which, although under different camouflage, discourses and actors, presents a medium and long-term coherency and a guiding line for the political-economy path followed by the party-in power since 1975. The work is structured in two major parts, historically sequencial, the first focused to introduce the theme and its political implications over the administration of Agostinho Neto (1975-1979), while the second is dedicated to the much longer administration of José Eduardo dos Santos, from 1979 up to nowadays, going through different international and national contexts over the years.

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The importance acquired by social movements and their multitudinous and media expressions in political and social life of countries like Egypt, Tunisia, Brazil, Turkey or Ukraine is accepted unanimously by the analysts in the press and academic studies. This article aims to reflect on aspects which, however, do not seem to be properly identified and established: the crowd event as, still and always, the turning point in the impact of a social movement; the relevance of the crowd beyond the possible failure of the objectives that motivated it; the explanation of the maintenance of the importance of ‘traditional’ media in the era of the Internet and electronic social networks; the historical affiliation of the main features of the multitudinous phenomenon and the correct accent in what is really new, as is the case of the marked individual empowerment in some contemporary crowds, such as Brazil in 2013, and the fluidity of activism in developed democracies. 

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Review of: VELASCO E CRUZ, Sebastião; KAYSEL, André; CODAS, Gustavo (Org.). Direita, volver!: o retorno da direita e o ciclo político brasileiro. São Paulo: Editora Fundação Perseu Abramo, 2015.

Analysis of historiography about the mutualist associative phenomenon in comparative perspective in Brazil and Portugal, considering the associative phenomenon in general and mutualism in particular seen as an object of historical research throughout the twentieth century and as one of the main expressions of associational culture of urban workers in the period between 1875 and 1914.

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In this short text, I make brief remarks about the critical comments expressed by Hélgio Trindade regarding my research on Integralism.

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The First Inter-American Indian Conference, held in Pátzcuaro (Mexico) in 1940, resolved to set aside April 19 of each year as “Indian Day” throughout the Americas to commemorate the date on which the Indian delegates joined the Conference. This article examines the creation of this new holiday by indigenistas who were at the same time founding the Inter-American Indian Institute (III) for the purpose of defining and developing a common policy about the “Indian problem”. I will first focus on the official adoption of Indian Day during the heyday of indigenismo (1940-1970), and discuss whether (or not) it became the hemispheric indigenista holiday envisioned by its creators. Secondly, the analysis of official speeches that the director and representatives of the III gave on occasion of the holiday will suggest that the Indian Day offered a useful scenario for an historical and present-day narrative about Indian People and Latin American countries, while assigning a crucial role to indigenismo. Actually, I will argue, the significance of the Indian Day, beyond its explicit tribute to the Indian, was rather related to the defense of indigenismo and the indigenista policies, at both the inter-American and the national level.

The decade of 1630 was characterized by a turbulent context in the Jesuits reductions on the River Plate. During this period there was the arrest of Erovocá, a native who was characterized in his documents as “cannibal”, who arrived at the reduction of Santa Ana, at the Tape, in 1636. The record, by Joseph Oregio, seems to have been produced while the arrest and questioning of the accused were being carried out, and is impressive due to the violence of the facts narrated. The objective of this essay is to show the potentialities and precautions of the ethno-historical analysis of the documental records which, supported by a more accurate reading of the contributions of contemporary anthropology, intends to comprehend the strategies used in a narrative that uses the ‘other’ to evidence the efficacy of the presence of the ‘self’. 

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