cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.11312918.v1
title: The Dutch tobacco pipe: archaeological clay pipes from Recife and Salvador

description: Abstract European tobacco pipes made of white clay, mainly between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, were mass produced and discarded quickly. They came in various decorative styles and bore different makers marks which have been relatively well dated. As a result, they are particularly useful in dating sites, layers, and features, even in heavily disturbed urban strata. This article analyzes pipes excavated from the Brazilian colonial cities of Recife and Salvador. Initially, we explore how these kaolin pipes can be identified in terms of their origin and production dates, consequently dating their strata; this contributes to the archaeology of these cities. At the same time, these implements were related to the increasingly globalized practice of smoking, full of meanings as well as social and cultural associations. Although this particular case study describes different municipalities, some interesting correlations are possible, since both were significant ports in seventeenth and eighteenth century Portuguese America. With these elements in mind, we present some interpretive possibilities related to the use of these pipes.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.11756790
title: Making rock art: thoughts on the composition of rock art figures and panels in Minas Gerais, Brazil

description: Abstract In this paper, we present a theoretical and methodological proposal that goes beyond analysing the final shape of paintings or carvings and instead considers the process of making figures and their graphic composition, viewing the production process itself as relevant and not just the means of achieving the final product. We start from theoretical discussions (combined with ethnographic and archaeological sources) and present examples from different areas of Minas Gerais (central Brazil) from this perspective. We also examine the construction of rock art panels, since we noticed that the process of constructing figures often involved relations with figures that already existed in these areas.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.11756790.v1
title: Making rock art: thoughts on the composition of rock art figures and panels in Minas Gerais, Brazil

description: Abstract In this paper, we present a theoretical and methodological proposal that goes beyond analysing the final shape of paintings or carvings and instead considers the process of making figures and their graphic composition, viewing the production process itself as relevant and not just the means of achieving the final product. We start from theoretical discussions (combined with ethnographic and archaeological sources) and present examples from different areas of Minas Gerais (central Brazil) from this perspective. We also examine the construction of rock art panels, since we noticed that the process of constructing figures often involved relations with figures that already existed in these areas.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.11757048
title: The Amazon in pieces: discourses about the division of Pará in the Correio do Tocantins newspaper

description: Abstract The article is intended to identify and investigate discourses published on the division of Pará state in the Correio do Tocantins, a newspaper that has been in print in Marabá, southeastern Pará, since 1983. Here, discourse is understood from a journalistic point of view that associates characteristics such as objectivity, singularity, actuality, authorship, and ideology to an individual way of speaking. Depth hermeneutics was adopted as a theoretical and methodological posture, as well as the notion of superstructures and macrostructures of critical discourse studies utilized as the main research technique. Eight articles from the first edition of the Correio do Tocantins were analyzed. The main conclusions point to discourses that value the Serra dos Carajás to the detriment of the Tocantins River, the clash between the Marabá elites and the state and federal governments, and the transfer of Marabá’s political and economic importance to Imperatriz, Maranhão.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.11757048.v1
title: The Amazon in pieces: discourses about the division of Pará in the Correio do Tocantins newspaper

description: Abstract The article is intended to identify and investigate discourses published on the division of Pará state in the Correio do Tocantins, a newspaper that has been in print in Marabá, southeastern Pará, since 1983. Here, discourse is understood from a journalistic point of view that associates characteristics such as objectivity, singularity, actuality, authorship, and ideology to an individual way of speaking. Depth hermeneutics was adopted as a theoretical and methodological posture, as well as the notion of superstructures and macrostructures of critical discourse studies utilized as the main research technique. Eight articles from the first edition of the Correio do Tocantins were analyzed. The main conclusions point to discourses that value the Serra dos Carajás to the detriment of the Tocantins River, the clash between the Marabá elites and the state and federal governments, and the transfer of Marabá’s political and economic importance to Imperatriz, Maranhão.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.12210767
title: Dead people living in museums: the ‘human objects’ of the National Museum of Anthropology in Madrid

description: Abstract This article presents the case of Agustín, the giant of Extremadura, bones and statue of a man that integrate the Museo Nacional de Antropología de Madrid’s collection of the end of the 19th century, to deal with this presence and exhibition in museums. Fairly common practice in museums and universal exhibitions in nineteenth-century Europe, the presence of dead people in current collections reveals contrasts in the modes of interpretation by institutions, councils, committees, and audience. Questions about ethics and relevance of their condition as cultural heritage are debated in opposition to the identity celebrations that also trigger.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.12210767.v1
title: Dead people living in museums: the ‘human objects’ of the National Museum of Anthropology in Madrid

description: Abstract This article presents the case of Agustín, the giant of Extremadura, bones and statue of a man that integrate the Museo Nacional de Antropología de Madrid’s collection of the end of the 19th century, to deal with this presence and exhibition in museums. Fairly common practice in museums and universal exhibitions in nineteenth-century Europe, the presence of dead people in current collections reveals contrasts in the modes of interpretation by institutions, councils, committees, and audience. Questions about ethics and relevance of their condition as cultural heritage are debated in opposition to the identity celebrations that also trigger.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.11757081.v1
title: From the girls’ point of view: the circulation of affections in the Ticuna Festa da Moça Nova

description: Abstract This article focuses on the relationship of the girls who participate in the Festa da Moça Nova, the Ticuna female initiation ritual, with “beasts” (bichos in Portuguese, ngo’o in Ticuna). Specifically, we describe and analyze what the girls feel about some of the beasts that appear in this ritual as masked figures. Some affections or emotions stand out in the analysis, such as “fear” (mu’ũ), “joy” or “amusement” (tchitãẽ, taẽ’ũ), “anguish” or “anxiety” (ĩãtchiãẽ), and “helplessness” (nhemagü’ü~). Finally, we examine what happens in the ritual as a kind of “trauma” that generates the desired transformations in the participants.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.11757081
title: From the girls’ point of view: the circulation of affections in the Ticuna Festa da Moça Nova

description: Abstract This article focuses on the relationship of the girls who participate in the Festa da Moça Nova, the Ticuna female initiation ritual, with “beasts” (bichos in Portuguese, ngo’o in Ticuna). Specifically, we describe and analyze what the girls feel about some of the beasts that appear in this ritual as masked figures. Some affections or emotions stand out in the analysis, such as “fear” (mu’ũ), “joy” or “amusement” (tchitãẽ, taẽ’ũ), “anguish” or “anxiety” (ĩãtchiãẽ), and “helplessness” (nhemagü’ü~). Finally, we examine what happens in the ritual as a kind of “trauma” that generates the desired transformations in the participants.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.12210776
title: Late Holocene human occupations and hunting technologies at the Laguna Azul site (Somuncurá plateau, Río Negro, Argentina)

description: Abstract Here we present an initial characterization of projectile point designs recovered from the Laguna Azul site, Parapet 3 (LA-P3), located in the Somuncurá Massif (Río Negro, Argentina). Our goal was to investigate the hunting technologies implemented by the hunter-gatherer groups that inhabited this site during the Late Holocene (ca. 1900 years BP). We analyzed different design variables and considered aerodynamics, reinforcement surface, and shaft system according to the functional model proposed by Ratto (2003). Supplementary micro-wear analyses were also conducted in order to generate additional data related to the shapes and materials utilized in the shaft system. These analyses identified black micro-residues in the basal sectors, while macroscopic assessments of the design manufacture indicated that different manufacturing stages were involved (pre-shaping, basic forms, maintenance, and recycling) as well as the use of at least two technical systems used to capture prey (bow and arrow and throwing spears or darts).
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.12210776.v1
title: Late Holocene human occupations and hunting technologies at the Laguna Azul site (Somuncurá plateau, Río Negro, Argentina)

description: Abstract Here we present an initial characterization of projectile point designs recovered from the Laguna Azul site, Parapet 3 (LA-P3), located in the Somuncurá Massif (Río Negro, Argentina). Our goal was to investigate the hunting technologies implemented by the hunter-gatherer groups that inhabited this site during the Late Holocene (ca. 1900 years BP). We analyzed different design variables and considered aerodynamics, reinforcement surface, and shaft system according to the functional model proposed by Ratto (2003). Supplementary micro-wear analyses were also conducted in order to generate additional data related to the shapes and materials utilized in the shaft system. These analyses identified black micro-residues in the basal sectors, while macroscopic assessments of the design manufacture indicated that different manufacturing stages were involved (pre-shaping, basic forms, maintenance, and recycling) as well as the use of at least two technical systems used to capture prey (bow and arrow and throwing spears or darts).
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.12210785
title: Bento Rodrigues and the memory that the mud did not erase: the awakening to heritage in the (re)construction of identity in the post-disaster context

description: Abstract This work aims to examine, from the disaster that occurred in 2015 in Bento Rodrigues, in the city of Mariana-MG, how the idea of heritage is used to construct, reconstruct, and negotiate identities, values, social and cultural meanings in the post-disaster context. From a perspective of intersection of heritage emotions, uses of heritage, nostalgia of heritage and places of memory, the purpose is to apprehend in what way these notions are configured in the actions of struggle for remediation that established from the disaster. We consider all these elements as fundamental components for the knowledgee of how the community of Bento Rodrigues mobilized from an understanding of heritage awakened by the loss of territory and conceived as a mechanism for claiming the right to memory.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.12210785.v1
title: Bento Rodrigues and the memory that the mud did not erase: the awakening to heritage in the (re)construction of identity in the post-disaster context

description: Abstract This work aims to examine, from the disaster that occurred in 2015 in Bento Rodrigues, in the city of Mariana-MG, how the idea of heritage is used to construct, reconstruct, and negotiate identities, values, social and cultural meanings in the post-disaster context. From a perspective of intersection of heritage emotions, uses of heritage, nostalgia of heritage and places of memory, the purpose is to apprehend in what way these notions are configured in the actions of struggle for remediation that established from the disaster. We consider all these elements as fundamental components for the knowledgee of how the community of Bento Rodrigues mobilized from an understanding of heritage awakened by the loss of territory and conceived as a mechanism for claiming the right to memory.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.12210806
title: Glass beads from the San Gabriel Tacuba church (México): a bridge between two worlds

description: Abstract This work reflects on beads in relationships between Europeans, Africans, and American natives during the conquest and colonization of the New World, most notably the specific impact on the local communities of the Mexico Valley who had not seen artificial glass until the Spanish conquest, and investigates its meaning as an incorporation of the ‘European exotic’ in the Americas. This is an effort to break with a mono-directional view of these phenomena, highlighting indigenous agency, while simultaneously showing the impact of their bodies decorated with beads in later European assessment of these ornaments. To do so, we selectedthe archaeological collection from San Gabriel de Tacuba (Mexico), which presents a complex context in which beads allowed movement between the world of the living and the dead, between pre-Hispanic and viceroyalty culture, or between medieval and modern representations of Europeans.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.12210806.v1
title: Glass beads from the San Gabriel Tacuba church (México): a bridge between two worlds

description: Abstract This work reflects on beads in relationships between Europeans, Africans, and American natives during the conquest and colonization of the New World, most notably the specific impact on the local communities of the Mexico Valley who had not seen artificial glass until the Spanish conquest, and investigates its meaning as an incorporation of the ‘European exotic’ in the Americas. This is an effort to break with a mono-directional view of these phenomena, highlighting indigenous agency, while simultaneously showing the impact of their bodies decorated with beads in later European assessment of these ornaments. To do so, we selectedthe archaeological collection from San Gabriel de Tacuba (Mexico), which presents a complex context in which beads allowed movement between the world of the living and the dead, between pre-Hispanic and viceroyalty culture, or between medieval and modern representations of Europeans.
DOI: 10.17632/h4npn8tvvx.1
title: MECHANICAL STABILISATION, CHEAP EFFECTIVE WAY OF IMPROVING THE MARGINAL MATERIALS FOR ROAD CONSTRUCTION

description: This paper presents a cost-effective method of improving the quality of marginal geo-materials through mechanical stabilisation. Two case study of the mechanical stabilisation as used during the construction of two projects in Tanzania, namely Mwika – Kilacha and Songea-Namtumbo, is presented. In both cases, substantial savings to the contract were realised. In this paper, the geotechnical and geo-mechanical properties of the geo-materials from these two cited projects before mechanical modification and after mechanical modification are presented and discussed. From the laboratory results as well as field test results, it can be concluded that mechanical stabilisation is the simplest method of stabilisation yet cost-effective means of improving the geotechnical and geo-mechanical properties of the marginal geo-materials.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.12210443.v1
title: The medical virtues of tobacco, the ‘holy herb’, described by a European missionary in the East (c. 16th century)

description: Abstract Probably in the mid-16th century, a European religious named Leonel de Sousa, on a mission to the easternmost parts of the known world, recorded in a ten-folio manuscript, the “Vertude da Erva Sancta que he o tabaco” (n.d.). There, he has revealed the most prominent uses of these American plant, such as diseases for which it was useful and the most accurate ways to handle and extract the potential healing components of the natural element. The herb he referred to as ‘holy’, the tobacco, was not unequivocally seen as so, especially among other priests or religious men who in diverse writings, underlines the addiction that could be aroused by its consumption. This characteristic makes the compilation worthy of a more thorough analysis. It is to the full transcription of this manuscript, with brief comments and indications, that this text is dedicated.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.12210443
title: The medical virtues of tobacco, the ‘holy herb’, described by a European missionary in the East (c. 16th century)

description: Abstract Probably in the mid-16th century, a European religious named Leonel de Sousa, on a mission to the easternmost parts of the known world, recorded in a ten-folio manuscript, the “Vertude da Erva Sancta que he o tabaco” (n.d.). There, he has revealed the most prominent uses of these American plant, such as diseases for which it was useful and the most accurate ways to handle and extract the potential healing components of the natural element. The herb he referred to as ‘holy’, the tobacco, was not unequivocally seen as so, especially among other priests or religious men who in diverse writings, underlines the addiction that could be aroused by its consumption. This characteristic makes the compilation worthy of a more thorough analysis. It is to the full transcription of this manuscript, with brief comments and indications, that this text is dedicated.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.12210827
title: The Ka’apor drum and the percussion of other peoples: an introductory study on the membranophone in indigenous contexts

description: Abstract Much of the ethnographic work on indigenous organology has a specific focus on wind instruments, but we maintain that the study of other indigenous musical instruments is also important. Among non-wind instruments, membranophones have received the least attention in ethnomusicology. This study describes the drum instrument of the Ka’apor people (Tupi-Guarani language speakers who live in the Alto Turiaçu Indigenous Reserve in Maranhão, Brazil) from an ethnomusicological perspective based on fieldwork and research in ethnological archives. We highlight the unique features and performative aspects of the Ka’apor drum alongside other membranophone instruments in other indigenous and quilombola contexts. We understand the myriad of purposes and applications of these instruments among different indigenous groups in lowland South America to represent both correlations and divergencies, depending on the particular cultural context. Because of the lack of identical relative intensity among the various approaches, modern ethnography requires a different approach to indigenous membranophones that puts these instruments on equal footing with studies of other indigenous musical instruments.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.12210827.v1
title: The Ka’apor drum and the percussion of other peoples: an introductory study on the membranophone in indigenous contexts

description: Abstract Much of the ethnographic work on indigenous organology has a specific focus on wind instruments, but we maintain that the study of other indigenous musical instruments is also important. Among non-wind instruments, membranophones have received the least attention in ethnomusicology. This study describes the drum instrument of the Ka’apor people (Tupi-Guarani language speakers who live in the Alto Turiaçu Indigenous Reserve in Maranhão, Brazil) from an ethnomusicological perspective based on fieldwork and research in ethnological archives. We highlight the unique features and performative aspects of the Ka’apor drum alongside other membranophone instruments in other indigenous and quilombola contexts. We understand the myriad of purposes and applications of these instruments among different indigenous groups in lowland South America to represent both correlations and divergencies, depending on the particular cultural context. Because of the lack of identical relative intensity among the various approaches, modern ethnography requires a different approach to indigenous membranophones that puts these instruments on equal footing with studies of other indigenous musical instruments.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14327478.v1
title: The Recreio Shellmound: geoarchaeology, ictioarchaeology and etnoarchaeology

description: Abstract This article addresses the shellmound occupation process on the Itapeva barrier, identifying the sites and their builders within the chronology, along with their choices for implementation in a landscape affected by the dynamics of paleoenvironmental transformations. The Recreio shellmound’s position on a shallow coastal plain demonstrates a cultural choice based on an ancient way of life that was already developing on the southern and southeastern coast of Brazil almost two thousand years ago. While the excavations identified fish and fishing implements that were present during prehistorical times, they also indicated the need for associated traditional strategies and knowledge which can only be obtained through ethnography. The ichthyoarcheological data suggest an initial stage of occupation focused on species with more predictable availability such as mullet (Mugil sp.) and kingcroakers (Menticirrhus sp.). After the sites were definitively established, fishing strategies became more generalist; use of lakes and flooded areas is seen in the presence of species such as mullet (Mugil sp.), freshwater catfish (Rhamdia sp.), sea catfish (Genidens sp.), cichlids (Cichlidae), whitemouth croaker (Micropogonias furnieri), and hake (Cynoscion sp.). In general, each species seems to indicate different fishing strategies.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14327476
title: Ethnohistoric review of amylolytic fermentation in Amazonia

description: Abstract In South America’s lowlands, it was believed that fermentation processes for amylaceous substances were performed only with the inoculation of salivary amylase in the mash. In 2004, Henkel identified a unique fermentation process that was not previously known in the Americas: fermentation performed with the inoculation of an amylolytic mold, Rhizopus sp. Amylolytic fermentation is an important way to transform and enrich carbohydrates and is widely used in the eastern and southeastern Asia for the enhancement of beverages and food. To verify if this process was unique, extensive research has been carried out by analyzing reports by missionaries, travelers, and anthropologists to search for hints of a larger diffusion of such processes. This research made it possible to verify that the use of amylolytic molds was widespread throughout the Amazon basin, from Rio Napo and the upper Amazon to Guianas and Orinoco. In addition, it was possible to verify that Rhizopus sp. was not the only mold employed. It is probable that the other molds used were Monascus sp. and Aspergillus sp. This leads us to believe that the fermentation processes in the Amazon basin were likely more varied than previously thought, and are worthy of deeper studies.