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In Maputo, the politic and economic capital of Mozambique, a small number of foreigners have been settling since the 2000s. Although they are not numerous, they are very visible in the urban space because of their main activity in retail shops, selling food or other goods. These shops are in the formal sector and the main pattern is a container converted in a local grocer’s shop which can be observed in every area of the city. They are run by African shop-owners coming either from the Great Lakes area, mainly as refugees, or from Western Africa. The paper focuses on their origins, their motivations for choosing Maputo, their life projects, and the reciprocal representations between city dwellers of Maputo and African shop-owners. The key question is how to deal with the dimension of rights to the city, in the extent that locals give right to recognition to foreigners as full inhabitants. The methodology is based on an ethnographic approach focused on everyday life of the African shop-owners and on the cross relations between them and the city dwellers.

Thinking about what Europe is, about its location or its limits often consists in trying to identify something such as a European identity, a common project or adherence to a lifestyle. In this perspective, the feeling of belonging to a place implies various dimensions, including subjective perceptions. To explore this, the research project EuroBroadMap and the survey “Visions of Europe”, conducted on a sample of 10,000 students living in eighteen different countries around the world, allows us to enrich our comprehension of these perceptions of Europe. From a set of words spontaneously related to Europe by the students surveyed, the methods of textual statistics enabled us to measure the variety of the vocabulary associated to this place. Several factors may explain the diversity of the words obtained: the students’ academic fields and countries of residence strongly condition the way they perceive Europe. Furthermore, it is noteworthy that belonging to the European Union or to its margins influences the individual perceptions.

A deep and profound lifelessness depicts the Malagasy capital city at night. How can we explain this “sleep” of the sole economic, political and cultural center of the island? There is a real paradox that we need to analyze before anything else. Nevertheless, this quietness should not hide the presence of families and children who live in the streets night and day. Therefore, to take a look at the night life of Antananarivo brings a question about urban identities and temporalities. On the one hand, there are those that claim the legitimacy of their city-dwelling status – the inhabitants, on the other hand, those who are excluded from it.

Os adornos elaborados em ossos de animais têm sido considerados como um importante marcador cultural entre os grupos humanos pré-históricos que viveram na região Nordeste do Brasil. Alguns exemplos de amostras faunísticas comparáveis foram recuperados de sítios arqueológicos nos estados do Piauí, Rio Grande do Norte e Pernambuco, têm apontado para a variabilidade desses elementos trabalhados. Neste artigo foram feitas observações relacionadas às alterações morfológicas em 16 pingentes elaborados em ossos metapodiais de Mazama associados à sepultura humana 118 do sítio arqueológico Justino, localizado no município de Canindé de São Francisco (Sergipe), na Mesorregião de Xingó, Nordeste do Brasil. THE ORNMENTS IN MAZAMA BONE IN THE BURIAL 118, CEMETERY B: Justino Archaeological Site, Canindé de São Francisco, Sergipe, Brazil ABSTRACT The adornments made from animal bones have been considered as an important cultural marker among the prehistoric human groups that lived in the Northeastern Brazil. Some comparable examples were found in faunal samples from archaeological sites in the states of Piauí, Rio Grande do Norte and Pernambuco have pointed to the variability of these worked elements. In this paper, observations are made regarding the morphological alterations in 16 pendants made in Mazama metapodial bones associated to the human burial 118 of the Justino archaeological site, located in the municipality of Canindé de São Francisco, Sergipe state, in the mesoregion of Xingó, Northeastern Brazil. Keywords: Adornments; Bone Industry; Mazama; Justino Archaeological Site

A Toca do Enoque, localizada na Serra das Confusões (SE do Piauí), forneceu um conjunto sepulcral notável, bem conservado, datado entre 7570 e 6660 anos BP, compreendendo dezessete indivíduos, sendo que a maior parte é de crianças jovens, cujos corpos foram inumados sobre um grande bloco gravado. Os restos humanos estão associados a um material funerário abundante e variado, notadamente de um grande número de adornos feitos em matéria dura animal: colares em dentes perfurados de felinos (Panthera onca, Felis concolor, Felis pardalis) e de pequenos canídeos (cerca de 600 caninos de Cerdocyon thous, 145 pingentes confeccionados em metatarsos de pequenos cervídeos (Mazama gouazoubira), alguns em ulnas de grandes aves, placas de tartaruga e conchas, assim como colares de contas vegetais, de grandes gastrópodes Megalobulimus e de grandes blocos de ocre. São encontradas, ainda, peças enigmáticas como incrustações de placas da carapaça de tatu na argila e restos animais não trabalhados (fragmentos de mandíbulas de caititú - Dicotyles tajacu, mandíbulas de ouriço, Coendu prehensilis, chifres e metatarsos adultos e jovens de veado - Mazama gouazoubira). A abundância e a diversidade do material funerário associado à reutilização de um mesmo local para enterramentos múltiplos fazem da Toca do Enoque, um sítio singular, provavelmente o centro da vida social e espiritual dessa população de caçadores-coletores que vivia no Nordeste brasileiro há mais de 6600 anos. ABSTRACT The Enoque rock-shelter, in the Serra das Confusões (South-Eastern Piauí), yielded a very well preserved complex of burials dating from between 7570 and 6660 years BP and concerning about seventeen peoples, mainly young children, whose corpses were buried upon a very large engraved stone. The human remains are associated with an abundant and various funerary materials, namely numerous adornments made of hard animal material. The most important are collars, made of perforated teeth (canines and incisors) of various Felids (Panthera onca, Felis concolor, Felis pardalis), and of about 600 canines of the small Canid Cerdocyon thous; there are numerous collars of vegetal beards. Another very important kind of adornments are pendants: 145 are made from the metatarsals of the small Cervid Mazama gouazoubira, and some other are made from ulnae of large birds, a plate of a turtle and shells of mollusks. Other remains are several samples of enigmatic pieces constituted of armadillo dermic bones incrusted on clay fragments, large Gastropods, frequently colored with ochre, of the genus Megalobulimus, and numerous large blocks of ochre. Some unworked animal remains are present, like mandibular fragments of the peccary Dicotyles tajacu, mandibles of the neotropical porcupine Coendu prehensilis, antlers and adult and juvenile metapodials of Mazama gouazoubira. Such a rich, abundant and various funerary materials and the fact that the same place was used at several times for multiple burials make the Toca do Enoque an exceptional site. This site was probably in the center of the social and spiritual life of that group of hunters-collectors who lived in the North-Eastern Brazil more than 6600 years ago. KEYWORDS: Prehistory, North-Eastern Brazil, Bone industry