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The Wagley Papers document anthropological field work in the cultures of South America, especially Guatemala and Brazil.

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A collection of "cordel literature", popular and inexpensively printed booklets or pamphlets containing folk novels, poems and songs, produced and sold in street markets and by street vendors in Brazil, mainly in the Northeast.

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Manuscript lecture and research notes of social anthropologist, mostly relating to Brazil.

Abstract An extensive and comprehensive collection on Afro-Brazilian literary history and general issues pertinent to the theme. The collection contains original issues and copies of Afro-Brazil newspapers; publications from Afro-Brazilian organizations such as the Sao Paulo State Federation of Afro-Brazilian Organizations; original booklets with historical content about the history of Afro-Brazil, artists, poets, and scholars. Original and copies of documents, magazine articles, journals, speeches,...

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Magazines, pamphlets, newspapers, and newsletters related to Brazilian folklore, music, carnivals, and Yoruba religion.

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Manuscript letter from Rodolfo Epifânio de Sousa Dantas to José Rodrigues de Lima Duarte discussing Jewish immigration to Brazil. It records Dantas’ diplomatic efforts to engage Baron Maurice de Hirsch, the Jewish philanthropist, in a plan to bring Russian-Jewish immigrants to Brazil, particularly the lands of the Companhia Norte Mineira.

Abstract The Marianne Schmink Papers date from 1970 to 2020. This collection includes personal and project documents, correspondence, photographs, magazines, newspapers and clippings, newsletters, maps, audiovisual and digital materials. Most of the documents relate to four different programs and research carried out in the Amazon region: Tropical Conservation and Development Program (TCD), research in Acre and São Félix do Xingu in Brazil, and the Managing Ecosystems and Resources with Gender...

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Writings, speeches, correspondence, subject files, reports and photographs of Peter Henry Rolfs, former Dean of the UF College of Agriculture (1915-1920), Director of the Florida Agricultural Experiment Station (1906-1920), and Director of the Escola Superior de Agricultura e Veterinaria, in Viscosa, Minas Gerais State, Brazil.

Abstract The Ralph Della Cava Papers collection is an extensive and comprehensive collection consisting of Ralph Della Cava's research on Brazilian priest Padre Cícero Romão Batista, the social, religious and political history of Juazeiro do Norte, and issues pertaining to the Catholic church in Latin America. The collection contains materials gathered over a period of forty years, including primary resources, late 19th-century and early 20th-century archival and printed materials, research...

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Manuscripts for three unpublished books on the social ecology of Latin America. Also of interest is a memorandum on agrarian reform in Brazil written in 1952 when Smith served as an advisor to the Brazilian government.