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Viewing society from the periphery

Eunice Durham Ribeiro.

Exclusion and public policies: theoretical dilemmas and political alternatives

Alba Zaluar.

Towards an ethnographic theory of the nature/culture distinction in Juruna cosmology

Tânia Lima Stolze.

Presidential elections: centrality, context, and implications

Olavo Brasil de Junior Lima.

Constitutional change, legislative performance and institutional consolidation

Argelina Figueiredo Cheibub, Fernando Limongi.

Individual preferences and social justice

Álvaro de Vita.

The edenic motif in the Brazilian social imaginary

José Carvalho Murilo de.

Secularization in Max Weber. On current usefulness of re-accessing that old meaning

Antônio Flávio Pierucci.

Determining factors of criminality in Minas Gerais

Claudio C. Beato F..