Traction control in electric vehicles

Tese de Mestrado Integrado. Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores. Área de Especialização de Automação. Faculdade de Engenharia. Universidade do Porto. 201

Music as living heritage

What is cultural heritage, and why has it received so much public interest in recent years? Almost three decades after the World Organization UNESCO defined and established international recognition of Cultural and Natural Heritage sites and devised ways of protecting them, a completely new approach to cultural heritage emerged with the UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage in 2003. This global agreement for the maintenance, protection and dissemination of cultural manifestations and achievements that are not tangible objects or immobile monuments, like previous items classified as World Heritage, was a remarkable milestone of international cultural politics. This new understanding of cultural heritage owes much to representatives from Asian, African, and Latin American countries. In fact, just a few years after the promulgation of the 2003 Convention, the world cultural heritage map had already lost much of its European predominance. Asian countries such as China, Japan, South Korea, and India very soon showed up with lists of manifestations of their centenary (in some cases even millenary) national cultural heritages

Som e música. Questões de uma antropologia sonora

This essay intends to sketch, in an introductory way, some of the main issues of ethnomusicological research in Brazil. Considered by many for long time as of hybrid nature -- partly indepted to anthropological methods, partly to the musical sciences, as far as its contents are concerned -- ethnomusicology is well established today in the important European and North-American universities. In past decades the discipline has gained more and more space with own expression also in Brazil. The comments on the study of the musical instruments at the end of the text, serve as argument to the images that constitute the photo section of this number of Revista de Antropologia.Este ensaio pretende esboçar, de forma introdutória, alguns campos de interesse da etnomusicologia, disciplina, que apesar de percebida durante longo tempo como de natureza híbrida -- ou seja, pertencente à musicologia quanto a seus conteúdos e à antropologia quando se trata de seus métodos de pesquisa -- cresceu consideravelmente nas últimas décadas levando à constituição de centros de estudos e de pesquisa nas principais universidades americanas e européias, firmando-se, cada vez mais, com expressão própria também no Brasil. Os comentários sobre o estudo dos instrumentos musicais ao final do texto servem de argumento às imagens que constituem o bloco temático do caderno de fotografias deste número da Revista de Antropologia

La musique dans le rite et la musique comme rite dans le candomblé brésilien

Dans la plupart des systèmes religieux, la musique occupe un rôle important, sinon central pour la « mise en condition sensorielle » de principes spirituels et mythiques. Mais jusqu’à quel point peut-on considérer la musique comme un élément autonome – et de ce fait susceptible d’être abstrait – du rite religieux ? La musique prise au sens le plus général, ne constitue-t-elle pas plutôt une dramatisation de l’acte religieux ? Dans le candomblé, un culte afro-brésilien pratiqué à Bahia mais au..