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Specific public policies aligned with the realities of traditional societies are important instruments for promoting local socioeconomic development. The main objective of the research is to analyze the Program for the Promotion of Racial Equality and Overcoming Racism, under the responsibility of the Special Secretariat for Policies for the Promotion of Racial Equality - SEPPIR, in the Pluriannual Plan 2016-2019. Data collection was carried out through documentary research, during the period 2016-2019. The results showed that the planning included two actions aimed at the local development of quilombola communities, however the amounts provided for in the PPA were not allocated in their entirety in the Annual Budget Law - LOA, which compromised its execution. The research found that, despite having been elevated to the status of State policy, the execution of actions still requires improvement to guarantee the quilombola communities the necessary development to no longer depend on paternalistic policies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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use non-timber forest products (NTFPs) for food, medicinal purposes, home infrastructure, and as a source of extra income. Several studies on sociobiodiversity and NTFPs have been carried out, mainly on productive inclusion and the formation of markets for the economic valuation of standing forests, which makes the importance of these products invisible for the social and economic organization of traditional communities and populations, especially about the feeding. Therefore, the objective of this study was to analyze the food consumption of families in an Amazonian riverside community, to identify the presence of socio-biodiversity products in local eating habits. Data collection was carried out through direct observation and interviews with 15% of the families living in the Surucuá community, in the Tapajós -- Arapiuns Extractive Reserve. 63 species of local biodiversity that are part of the families' diet were counted, of which 24 are not recognized in the official Brazilian list of sociobiodiversity products. Through feasibility studies, these species can be included in the said list and, thus, subsidize the formation of new productive chains. In addition, the results show that the relationship between families and the forest and backyards shows socio-biodiversity as an element of the socio-ecological system and plant extraction as a significant activity in the configuration of the community and social reproduction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article inquires which are the main concepts of power proposed by feminist theory in the context of the second-wave, in order to argue that it is possible to identify two fundamental, complementary concepts. By way of a revision of the central feminist ideas of power emerged in the 1960s, it is shown that they are mainly related to the concepts of domination and oppression, but also to the notions of empowerment, resource, care, and freedom. It is then argued that in order to analyze the power relationships between women and men it is necessary to return to both the concept of power as domination and the concept of power as empowerment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article is the result of ethnographic work carried out in artisan cheese farms of southwestern Minas Gerais, Brazil. Its purpose is to discuss the complexity of the activity and the contemporary presence of peasants in the manufacture of this product. The peasants are analyzed as historical subjects, with a diversity of ways of being and living, and distinctive characteristics concerning the classic concept of peasant, resulting from their own national and regional circumstances. The "peasant" category, has emerged locally as an epistemological problem to be addressed, as it escapes the illusion of the circumscription of traditional society, which considers it a well-defined social and cultural unit. In a contemporary context, framed by the accelerated flow of people and things, in which borders are increasingly blurred, this category was not understood or used as a notion of society, but as actors who associate in various networks and who hold the family, land, and work as moral elements from which they establish specific relations with the occupied territories. Part of this complexity of relationships is what I discuss in this text. As I approached, through my fieldwork, the experiences and practices developed by social subjects, the research led me to the challenge of creating a multi-actor ethnography, several ethnographic "soils," and empirical questions to be solved. Faced with this situation, I chose to assume the idea of a "peasantry," understood as a subjectivity present, to a greater or lesser extent, in different specific groups that are articulated to varying extents and in ambiguous terms with modernity. Finally, I provide examples of how the trajectory of these actors is not linear, in such a way that a movement towards a dimension of modernity can open up variants that reconstitute tradition. With the establishment of health standards that reinforce "modernization" processes and the control activities that render illegal the Canastra producers, I analyze how they build local strategies based on their peasant ways. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Pre-capitalist societies – overcome problem? – were affected by several cataclysms and epidemics. Among these, the plague manifested itself in frequent epidemic cycles from the outbreak of the great Black Death epidemic from 1348 until at least the end of the 16th century, promoting sudden and systematic increases in the already high mortality rates, and causing destruction, fear and social chaos. In Portugal, there was at least one plague every decade throughout the period, which particularly affected port cities, with emphasis on Lisbon. The disease was a factor of destabilization and social disorder which demanded from royalty, the power intended to be the ordering authority, the promotion of the shock through various actions. The royal action related to epidemics was based on two essential elements, the production of a characterization of the disease and the definition of initiatives, attitudes and norms aimed at overcoming it, whose non-compliance implied physical and pecuniary penalties. In this article, we will discuss the rise of a medical knowledge, erudite, linked to the medical tradition of Antiquity, and conveyed in universities that, invested by royalty, became the main instrument of power in its social intervention against the scourge. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Due to the emergence of the so called "cyberspace" through the popularization of communication mediated by computers (Internet) on a global scale, a fertile field for the conduction of investigations in Anthropology arose. As a consequence, new theoretical and methodological issues are made necessary. Aiming at this circumstance, we want to contribute with a reflective approach to some of the dilemmas imposed to the métier of ethnography in the cyberspace by evaluating the analytical potential of some types of cyberspace events. This evaluation is done through the analysis of an "extraordinary happening", ethnographically monitored by the author. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article focuses on the role of the German historical schools and the American institutionalist tradition in the development of economic sociology from social reformism. The economic sociology analyzes the social condition of intellectuals or scholars in the modern society. Institutionalism developed as a seminal object for the economic sociology in the traditional society. It also gave way to other social factors like taylorism, fordism, liberalism and social contracts. The effect of the institutionalist tradition was found to be similar to the German historical schools in the economic sociology.

The article discusses social history of the working class in the traditional societies. The British historian's studies on slavery and post emancipation, suggest that the working class history is more complex than the history of ideologies and syndicates. The workers displayed unity while placing their demands and social values in the society. A good worker showed the characteristics of maintaining stable production and loyalty with the organization. The social history can, not only help in understanding the condition of workers of the past, but can also play a vital role in studying various aspects of the present workers in the modern society.

The article presents information on the book "A formação da classe operária inglesa," by E.P. Thompson. The book analyzes the origin of the working class with the contemporary historical context by considering factors like work culture and socialibility. It describes the role played by the worker movement in the political struggle. The book suggests, capitalism of the free market as the main political ideology in the traditional society. It evaluates the major segments of the working middle class which share common causes of the free market.

The article compares the role of youth in the traditional and contemporary society in Brazil. The traditional society considered the youth as a social category. The modern society viewed teenagers as more inclined towards getting attention from the society. The motives to gather attention soon became contaminated with the social crisis, abuses, social conflicts and explosion. The 1920s period showed a direct link between youth and the criminality in Brazil. It gave way to the modernity, globalization and violence in the life of the urban youth.

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