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“The past is a foreign country”? Acculturation theory and the anthropology of globalization
Etnográfica, 15 (2): 313-336Contemporary anthropology has developed a consistent interest in the study of modes of circulation of people, objects and ideas associated with current cultural globalization. This interest is usually presented as a new development in anthropological theory and its possible predecessors, such as diffusionism and acculturation theory, dismissed as irrelevant. Focusing on the works of Melville Herskovits and Roger Bastide, this article argues for a less biased imaged of acculturation theory and stresses the ways in which some of its achievements can inspire current approaches to cultural globalization
Mapping Mediterranean Portugal: Pastoral and Counter-pastoral
This article focuses on the different images of Mediterranean
Portugal developed by three important Portuguese social scientists
of the 20th century: the geographer Orlando Ribeiro, the
ethnologist Jorge Dias and the social anthropologist José Cutileiro.
The article argues that these different images stem from different
ideological attitudes towards the countryside, ranging from pastoral
to counter-pastoral, and are also related to different ways of
addressing the links between the countryside and national identity
“We are azorean”: discourses and practices of folk culture in Santa Catarina (Brazil)
Etnográfica, Vol. IX, N.1, pp. 171-193The development of the Azoreanist movement is
a major feature in the contemporary cultural and political scene of the state of Santa Catarina(southern Brazil). Aimed at the rediscovery and celebration of the Azorean roots of the island of Santa Catarina and other coastal areas of the state, the Azoreanist movement dates back to the
1940s and, having remained an elite endeavor
for several decades, recently became a very
influential movement. This paper seeks to
investigate the prominent role played by folk
culture in the activities and identity claims of the movement, contrasting its ethnogenealogical thematicizations on Santa Catarina’s folk culture with more “autochthonous” visions of local folklore
Automated Identification and Classification of Stereochemistry: Chirality and Double Bond Stereoisomerism
Stereoisomers have the same molecular formula and the same atom connectivity
and their existence can be related to the presence of different
three-dimensional arrangements. Stereoisomerism is of great importance in many
different fields since the molecular properties and biological effects of the
stereoisomers are often significantly different. Most drugs for example, are
often composed of a single stereoisomer of a compound, and while one of them
may have therapeutic effects on the body, another may be toxic. A challenging
task is the automatic detection of stereoisomers using line input
specifications such as SMILES or InChI since it requires information about
group theory (to distinguish stereoisomers using mathematical information about
its symmetry), topology and geometry of the molecule. There are several
software packages that include modules to handle stereochemistry, especially
the ones to name a chemical structure and/or view, edit and generate chemical
structure diagrams. However, there is a lack of software capable of
automatically analyzing a molecule represented as a graph and generate a
classification of the type of isomerism present in a given atom or bond.
Considering the importance of stereoisomerism when comparing chemical
structures, this report describes a computer program for analyzing and
processing steric information contained in a chemical structure represented as
a molecular graph and providing as output a binary classification of the isomer
type based on the recommended conventions. Due to the complexity of the
underlying issue, specification of stereochemical information is currently
limited to explicit stereochemistry and to the two most common types of
stereochemistry caused by asymmetry around carbon atoms: chiral atom and double
bond. A Webtool to automatically identify and classify stereochemistry is
available at http://nams.lasige.di.fc.ul.pt/tools.ph
Editorial:Workshop on scientific articles and projects of the UI-IPS 2017
Editorial de Workshop de artigos científicos e projetos da UI-IPS 2017info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio
Equity research - the Walt Disney company: the entertainment giant
The purpose of this Equity Research is to analyze The Walt Disney Company, its peers, and its
industry, in order to provide a recommendation regarding the company’s value and target share
price to potential investors, which is based on three different scenarios and the Discounted Cash
Flows Methodology. This Individual Report contains some of the sections that were vital to achieve
an accurate estimate of Disney’s intrinsic value, including the valuation of its most relevant
segment, Disney Media, Entertainment and Distribution
THE 2017 BRAZILIAN LABOR REFORM : a brief overview
This study seeks to present to a foreign audience a brief description of the development of the Brazilian Labor Law, up to the Labor Reform approved by Law No. 13,467/2017, which significantly altered the nature of labor relations through amendments made to the texts of the “Consolidação das Leis do Trabalho - CLT” (Consolidation of Labor Laws - CLT), of Law No. 6,019/1974 and of other labor laws. The aim of this study is to analyze the Labor Reform within the historical context, with emphasis on its material aspects especially regarding the Collective Labor Lawand Labor Union Law.Article信州大学経法論集 5(ブラジル・日本国際セミナー特集号) : 55-78(2019)departmental bulletin pape
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