Southern Brazil (Geographic Keyword)

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Disability, Inclusion, and Citizenship: What Does it Mean to be Disabled in Southern Brazil (WGF - Dissertation Fieldwork Grant) (2020)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Matthew Medeiros.

This resource is an application for the Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. What counts as "disability," how is it framed, and who frames it? My project is concerned with examining disability, biopolitics, and citizenship in Brazil. More specifically, it is concerned with examining how one of Latin America's largest organization for supporting those with intellectual disabilities has recently turned towards increasingly drawing on biomedical frameworks of disability...

PHYTOLITH AND STARCH ANALYSIS OF TWO DENTAL CALCULUS SAMPLES FROM MORRO DO OURO, SOUTHERN BRAZIL (2022)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Human teeth were discovered at the Morro do Ouro archaeological site in southern Brazil during excavation and radiocarbon dated to ca. 4500 cal BP. Calculus samples extracted from these teeth were submitted to PaleoResearch Institute for phytolith and starch analysis.