Cuidando da saude do vizinho : as atividades de antropologos norte-americanos no Brasil

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2004

RESUMO

This study examines passages of the itineraries of two North American anthropologists, who had achieved ethnographic researches in Brazil and besides, who had devoted themselves to applied activities linked to aid programs and strategic policy trom United States toward Brazil. The anthropologists are: Charles Wagley, who was director of the Special Public Health Service s Migration Program and Division of Health Education during Second World War,and Nancy Scheper-Hughes, who was Peace Corps volunteer in state of Pernambuco between 1964 and 1966. The objective is to research Wagley s and Scheper-Hughes applied works, to emphasize geopolitical contexts on which works were made and to contrast those experiences with the written ethnographies. Among the questions in focus are: the engagement and activism of the anthropologists, the mobilization of anthropologists in wartime,the effects ofthe geopolitics on the anthropological field and the fields where the anthropology may be applied (as foreign policy, colonialism, national development, public health field)

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wagley antropologos - estados unidos saude publica politica e guerra charles

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