This work analyses the institutionalization process of Anthropology in the National Museum at Rio de Janeiro between 1876-1939. Operating with continuities and discontinuities in the period, the research focuses on the political and institutional changes and intends to observe the development of scientific activity in Anthropology. It pretends to characterize this scientific practice, to recognize the scientists, to reconstruct the interchange networking between scientists and institutions, to know the issues and the questions they discussed and how they develop their research and build know how.

LINS, D.T. La Celestina play, by Ziembinski: Fernando de Rojas classical work in Brazil during the militar government. São Paulo: College of Philosophy, Letters and Human Sciences, São Paulo University (USP), 2009, 204 p. Dissertation for Master Degree in Spanish Language and Literature, and Hispano-American Language and Literature. La Celestina, as it is known the Tragicomedy of Calisto and Melibea, by Fernando de Rojas, is a fundamental work of Hispanic culture. Due to its essentially dramatic style it has been already adapted in many countries and in different times. During 1969 and 1970, three different professional performances of La Celestina took place in Brazil. The objective of this study is to analyze the performance done in São Paulo, under the direction of Ziembinski, based upon the adapted text written by Eudinyr Fraga and the historical material collected during the research. Also it aims at establishing a dialogue with the two other performances occurred in Porto Alegre and Rio de Janeiro. Besides it this paper identifies and analyzes the Brazilian artists interest in producing the classic Spanish play in the Brazilian context of military dictatorship, setting forth the hypothesis that those performances could signify an aesthetics of political action in opposition to the repression lived during the military dictatorship. In this sense, it was taken into account the social-historical context and the aesthetics options that directed the artistic doing of those times as essential facts to establish the relationships of meanings in the studied object. In the case of the performance of La Celestina in São Paulo, it is noticeable a political purpose clearly defined, which wants to bring to the stages, by means of an audacious and critical play, the questions regarding the lack of political freedom, the repression and the class struggle. This allowed to include Ziembinski's play in the group of the aesthetics manifestations in resistance to Brazilian military dictatorship.

In 1977, Alfa-Omega, a publish house which opposes the Military Regime, published Em Câmara Lenta, by Renato Tapajós. It was the first book to analyze the leftist guerilla groups strategies and to denounce the brutality of the torture enforced by the military and the police against the activists of those groups. Tapajós had been a militant of Ala Vermelha, an urban Maoist guerrilla group, and had been jailed from 1969 to 1974. Publicized all over the country, the book was furiously received by the the conservative sectors of Brazilian society. In a surprising move, Tapajós was jailed in São Paulo in July of 1977 and stayed 10 days without any communication, under the accusation that Em Câmara Lenta was a "tool of the revolutionary guerrilla". Formally, the book was not forbidden and legally, there was no problem to publish and publicize it. Just after 15 days of Tapajós got the the jail, the book was formally censured and it was made illegal to sell it. Taking in consideration the complex repercussions of this event, the initial aim of this dissertation is to demonstrate how the leftist guerrilla experience was transformed in a literary narrative. In order to do that, I present a study of this book history, the criminal procedures enforced against Renato Tapajós (using the documentation of the State Department of Political and Social Order, DOPS, the political police of São Paulo, produced during the police investigation) and in favor of him, as well as the testimonial narrative of the romance and its critical reception by the public and the specialists.

This dissertation describes and analyzes juruna (yudja) verbs based on argument structure and its syntactic consequences. We aim to offer to the juruna school useful material about verb classes and also to contribute to the advancement of language studies in the generativist framework. The dissertation is divided in two parts - description and analysis). The first is a description of 302 verbs in this language. In this part, we divided verbs in eighteen classes based on morphological, syntactic and semantic criteria established from phenomena present in juruna. These phenomena are: verb reduplication, semantic properties of roots and affixes, causativization and properties of roots that, associated to verbalizers, form verbs. We presented constructions and morphological operations that each verb described realize, for instance: valence alternation (by affixation or labile alternation), reduplication and suppletion and their functions in this language.  The second part of the dissertation - entitled “analysis” - presents a generativist account of some juruna facts described in the first part. To discuss verb formation we based ourselves on hale & keyser’s (1993; 2001) proposal that verbs are formed from two basic structures (monadic and dyadic) with verbal nuclei (v1 and v2) organized structurally and hierarchically. These structures are utilized parametrically, taking into consideration verbal root restrictions and syntactic and semantic traces. Supported by this theorical proposal, we argued that verbs in juruna are formed structurally based on restrictions of their root. These restrictions will also determine the process of attribution and change of valence and voice and the processes of verb duplication and suppletion in the language. After the analysis of verb formation, we present a hypothesis of sentence structure in juruna based on the minimalist program (chomsky 1995; 1998; 1999). In this section we discussed: 1) subject insertion (taking into consideration pronominal forms, demonstratives and nominal phrases) in vp; 2) agreement processes; 3) the insertion of mood realis/ irrealis; 4) sentential order; 5) adverbial adjunction and 6) the parallelism between nominal and verbal domains based on cumulativity and quantification. The central theoretical point of this dissertation is to argue in favor of the idea that syntactic properties may be explained, in large part, as a consequence of verb formation. In this sense, to understand the syntactic structure of a language it is essential to understand the argument structure of its verbs.