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The community of Quilombo Pinhões during Covid-19 / Quilombo de Pinhões durante o Covid-19
*** this blog post is translated into Portuguese below *** In this video Débora Rodrigues shares with us a little bit about the situation at Pinhões during Covid-19. She focuses on how the community is dealing with the pandemic and helping each other to remain safe, as cases in Brazil have been sharply increasing since
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Knowledge in time of Pandemic
TEHÊY – FISHING OF KNOWLEDGE / TEHÊY DE PESCARIA DE CONHECIMENTO In the village Muã Mimatxi, located in the town of Itapecerica in the state of Minas Gerais, in Brazil, the Pataxoop practice what is called ‘fishing of knowledge’ (pescaria do conhecimento). The knowledges, narratives and customs of the indigenous people of Minas Gerais are
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Congratulations to Edgar Xakriabá for winning the Photography Award Art & Science
We are happy to share that Edgar Kanaykõ Xakriabá, one of our Research Collaborators in the Project ‘Capturing new education models among Indigenous and Quilombola minorities in Brazil’, has won the Photography Award in 1st place for ‘Images created by photographic cameras: Wild and anthropic environment’. The prize is given by the National Council for Scientific
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