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This paper traces the history of neoshamanism in Brazil through bibliographical and documentary research, participation in rituals, personal interviews and questionnaires. First, we investigated the emergence of the concept of shamanism in the West and its consequent fusion with ideas of nature in the 19th century. We analyze the development of contemporary shamanism under indigenous leadership and its openings and mergers with the modern world, as well as, conversely, the creation of the movement under the leadership of academics and their searches for tradition. In the second part, we investigate how this movement happened in Brazil, and we try to create a short history of the movement in the country, through the stories of four important figures of this religious movement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to investigate the establishment of a field of academic history in Brazil, by means of USP’s Revista de História, founded in 1950. Through the contents of the 1950’s issues we identify, in the publication, a period of closeness between professionals coming from the IHGSP and others from the university itself. That points to a transition period between a so-called traditional history and a new professional history in Brazil, already during the 1950’s. It is also possible to sort out the traditional periods of the relationship between the Annales and the so called USP school of History, through the analyses of elements that accompany texts published by French historians and some others published by professors such as Eurípedes Simões de Paula, Eduardo d’Oliveira França and Astrogildo Rodrigues de Mello. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper analyses the logic of repressive policy applied to the militaries after 1964’ coup. The objective is to demonstrate that the roots of this process have a direct relation with the contests of policy-ideological process for control by the Brazilian State, which occurred in the post-Second World War, and that the justifications for its use were formulated during the political debates that took place in the late 1940s. In particular, the objective is to prove that, in the courses of the Superior School of War (ESG), based on its basic principles and doctrines of national security and revolutionary war, we find the ideological, political and economic grounds for the “sanitation” carried out within the Armed Forces. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This research has the objective to analyze, inside of the historiography, the republican construction of Tiradentes's myth, from the popular memory, to justify and consolidate the affective power. In such a way, a bibliographic research was effected about the subject, verifying the depth of the performance of the dominant power in the hero's creation, its several faces constructed in different contexts and historical times, beyond the paper of this historian inside of this process. We confer, also, as the survival of the myth of martyr and sacrificed of Tiradentes in the contemporary, through the didactic book in our institutions of education, the speeches politicians and in agreement medias. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]