Esta tese se constitui numa reflexão sobre Luiz Heitor Corrêa de Azevedo, embasada na historiografia musical Brasileira. Ela está elaborada em base aberta de investigação, com recortes na historiografia cultural. Discutimos as escolhas do musicólogo, norteadas entre valores contemporâneos e tradicionais da sua época. Apoiamo-nos em parâmetros da história, ideologia e sociabilidade dos períodos vivenciados por Luiz Heitor, discorremos sobre a sua postura ideológica, a rede social a que pertencia e as suas contribuições para a música brasileira e mundial com apoios na história cultural do passado e do presente, nos documentos históricos levantados nos acervos disponíveis no Brasil, nas entrevistas e depoimentos de músicos e pesquisadores próximos ao musicólogo e na sua produção intelectual. / This thesis is a reflection on Luiz Heitor Correa de Azevedo, based on brazilian musical historiography. It is developed in an open base for research, with cuts in cultural history. We discuss the choices of the musicologist, guided between contemporary and traditional values of his time. We support ourselves in the parameters of history, ideology and sociability periods experienced by Luiz Heitor, we discuss his ideology, the social network to which he belonged, and his contributions to Brazilian and world music with support in the cultural history of the past and present, in historical documents collected in archives available in Brazil, in interviews and testimonials from musicians and researchers next to the musicologist and his intellectual production.

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No. of bitstreams: 1 williamassisdasilva.pdf: 2252317 bytes, checksum: 0144cb245d0f397b6e5302a9fc928c36 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-06-24 / CAPES - Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / O presente trabalho tem como intuito refletir, antropologicamente, sobre os temas da masculinidade, da velhice e dos aspectos característicos do jogar, baseando-se em uma etnografia realizada em um território de sociabilidade entre homens, preponderantemente velhos, que se reúnem diariamente para a prática de jogos de cartas no Parque Halfeld, localizado no centro da cidade de Juiz de Fora. Busco, primeiramente, tratar temas relativos à etnografia, a partir de minha inserção em campo, a fim de mostrar os caminhos percorridos durante o trabalho, relacionando as percepções iniciais sobre objeto e as desconstruções advindas do processo de descoberta do território dos jogos. A palavra “feitiço” utilizada no título e no decorrer do texto, refere-se à intensidade da forma como o jogo cativa o jogador, a ponto de constituir um “mundo artificial”, diferente da seriedade exigida na vida cotidiana, resultando em uma sociabilidade em que o conteúdo do jogo e os jogos sociais, construídos a partir dele, são os grandes motivadores. Para além do jogo propriamente dito, o feitiço só se realiza plenamente juntamente ao jogo social das relações jocosas. Com provocações verbais e performances corporais de indecência e grosseria, mediadas por um “saber brincar”, canalizam os estresses cotidianos através de tais conflitos jocosos que implicam na combinação entre uma pretensão de hostilidade e real amistosidade. É também de forma jocosa que temas como a velhice e a masculinidade são colocados em jogo, sem que precisem ser levados a sério. Embora seja um território ocupado preponderantemente por homens com mais de sessenta anos, os discursos e práticas de jogadores e espectadores encontrados em campo demonstram uma não identificação com as categorias “velho” e “idoso”, que aparecem associadas a uma série de características negativas atribuídas a velhice. Sendo uma sociabilidade masculina intrassexual, as experiências encontradas em campo e a frase “vê se vira homem” ilustram uma constante (re)construção da masculinidade a partir de gestos e discursos que visam atribuir características femininas a um homem em busca de desqualificá-lo perante os outros, colocando em jogo a masculinidade do acusado mediante a homofobia. Tratando do tema da sexualidade na velhice, à despeito das expectativas de gerontólogos, que sugerem que se busque novas zonas erógenas, o interesse sexual de jogadores e espectadores aparecem ainda fortemente associados ao modelo hegemônico de masculinidade que confere intensa valorização à penetração e ao desempenho erétil. / This work is intended to reflect, anthropologically, on the themes of masculinity, old age and the characteristic aspects of the play, based on an ethnography carried out in an area of sociability among men, old preponderantly, who gather daily to practice card games in Halfeld Park, located in the city of Juiz de Fora. I seek, first, address issues relating to ethnography, from my insertion in the field, in order to show the paths taken during the work, relating the initial perceptions of the object and the deconstructions that arise from the discovery process of the game territory. The word "spell" used in the title and throughout the text, refers to the intensity of the way in which the game captivates the player to constitute an "artificial world," different from the seriousness required in everyday life, resulting in a sociability in which the game content and the social games built from it are the greatest motivators. Besides the game itself, the spell can only be fully realized along with social game of joking relationships. With verbal taunts and physical performances of indecency and rudeness, mediated by a "learn to play", canalizes the everyday stress through such joke conflicts that involve the combination of a pretense hostility and real friendliness. It is also in a joking way that issues such as old age and masculinity are approached without the need to be taken seriously. Although it is a territory mainly occupied by men over sixty years, the discourses and practices of players and audience found in the field demonstrate a failure in the identification with the categories of "old" and "elderly", which appear to be associated with a number of negative characteristics attributed to old age. Being a intrassexual male sociability, experiences found in the field such as the phrase "turn into man" illustrate a constant (re) construction of masculinity from gestures and speeches that seek to attribute feminine characteristics to a man intending to disqualify him before others putting into doubt the maleness of the accused by homophobia. Dealing with the topic of sexuality in old age, despite of gerontologists expectations who suggests men to seek new erogenous zones, sexual interest of players and audience still appear strongly associated with the hegemonic model of masculinity that gives intense valorization of penetration and erectile performance.

Orientador: Leila Mezan Algranti / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-26T06:30:09Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Abrahao_ElianeMorelli_D.pdf: 5428557 bytes, checksum: 35bfe522f3421f2f7589f0f5359a0d35 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014 / Resumo: Três mulheres, três escolhas: Custodia Leopoldina de Oliveira (1835-1889), Anna Henriqueta de Albuquerque Pinheiro (1871-1950) e Barbara do Amaral Camargo Penteado (1875-1963). Cada autora à sua maneira, descortinou ¿ por meio da escrita, feminina e privada ¿ o universo do cozinhar. O léxico das receitas indica as técnicas de preparo empregadas, a modernização dos utensílios domésticos e dos espaços da casa, os ingredientes disponíveis à época deste estudo, as perpetuações e descontinuidades das iguarias e da vida do lar. A partir dos receituários de comida, fonte e objeto de estudo, procuraremos compreender de que maneira as práticas alimentares se consolidaram através dos tempos em certo espaço social. A leitura e a análise destes documentos trazem à luz detalhes do cotidiano familiar, da dinâmica econômica, cultural e social da elite cafeicultora, no período entre 1860 e 1940, reforçando a hipótese de que a alimentação funcionava como instrumento de criação e perpetuação de laços de amizade e veículo de pertencimento social / Abstract: Three women, three choices: Custodia Leopoldina de Oliveira (1835-1889), Anna Henriqueta de Albuquerque Pinheiro (1871-1950), and Barbara do Amaral Camargo Penteado (1875-1963). Each author, in her own fashion, unveiled ¿ through private feminine writing ¿ the universe of cooking. The recipes¿ lexicon indicates the preparing techniques employed, the modernization of the household appliances and house spaces, the available ingredients at the period studied, the perpetuations and discontinuities of the dishes and of the home life. Based on the food recipes, source and object of the study, we will attempt to comprehend in which way the fooding habits have been cemented through time in a given social space. The reading and the analysis of such documents bring to light details about the family life, the economic, cultural, and social dynamics of the coffee farmers elite in the period between 1860 and 1940, reinforcing the hypothesis that the feeding habits used to operate as an instrument for the creation and maintenance of friendship bonds, as well as a social belonging vehicle / Doutorado / Politica, Memoria e Cidade / Doutora em História

Esta pesquisa analisa, do ponto de vista etnográfico, os visitantes da Pinacoteca do Estado, em São Paulo. Embora seja o museu de arte mais antigo da cidade, a Pinacoteca se encontra, junto a outras instituições culturais da região da Luz, no meio de processos de revitalização por meio da cultura. Tais processos fazem parte de fenômenos urbanos globais que vêm redefinindo o papel dos museus no contexto urbano e relacionando-os com processos econômicos mais abrangentes. No entanto, a presente pesquisa busca um afastamento das análises que entendem os museus como parte de uma cultura de consumo e vê seus frequentadores apenas como consumidores. Contudo, não se propõe aqui uma antropologia do consumo, que em que pese a notável superação de uma abordagem moral do tema se baseia numa ruptura entre sujeito e objeto e compreende as relações materiais apenas como formas de representação de classificações e divisões culturais mais profundas de grupos sociais. Tenta-se, na verdade, compreender o comportamento dos visitantes da Pinacoteca em suas formas de sociabilidade, bem como a relação desses visitantes com os objetos de arte tendo como base uma perspectiva antropológica da arte e da cultura material. Tal perspectiva permite conceber as obras de arte como pessoas, o que dinamiza e complexifica as relações com objetos materiais. Assim, analisa-se, situacionalmente, as relações dos visitantes da Pinacoteca de modo que, por meio das obras de arte e dos laços de sociabilidade, as interações sociais possam ser ampliadas e, em vez de ocasião para distinção simbólica e social, a visita possa ser entendida como oportunidade de construção pessoal. / This research analyzes, from an ethnographic point of view, the visitors of Pinacoteca do Estado, in São Paulo. Although it is the oldest art museum in the city, the Pinacoteca is, along with other cultural institutions in the region of Luz, amid processes of revitalization through culture. These processes are part of global urban phenomena that come redefining the role of museums in the urban context and relating them to broader economic processes. However, this research seeks a departure from the analyses that understand museums as part of a culture of consumption and see their visitors only as consumers. Nevertheless, it is not proposed here an anthropology of consumption in spite of the remarkable overcoming of a moral approach to the subject which is based on a split between subject and object and understands the material relations only as forms of representation of deeper classifications and cultural divisions of social groups. Actually, we try to understand the behavior of Pinacotecas visitors in their forms of sociability, as well as the relationship of these visitors with the objects of art based on an anthropological perspective of art and material culture. This perspective allows conceiving artworks as people, which dynamizes and complexifies relations with material objects. Thus, we analyze, situationally, the relationship of the Pinacotecas visitors so that by works of art and the bonds of sociability, social interactions can be expanded and instead of occasion for symbolic and social distinction, the visit can be understood as an opportunity for personal construction.

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Ce projet de recherche souhaite démontrer qu’une nouvelle ère s’instaure (la postmodernité) où l’imaginaire initiatique réinvente une nouvelle forme de socialisation. Il s’agit de questionner les pratiques sociales liées à l’imaginaire initiatique (cosplay, japan expo, jeux en ligne), ainsi que l’impact provoqué dans la vie quotidienne des individus. En fait, on se demandera si l’imaginaire initiatique entraîne des changements de comportements, crée des habitus. Ce qu’il est nécessaire de souligner, c’est que l’homme postmoderne accède au domaine du sacré, entreprend une démarche initiatique, à partir de ce qu’il vit dans les mondes fictionnels. Cette manière d’être est tout à fait légitime, et s’apparente sans aucun doute à une nouvelle façon de vivre l’initiation des sociétés archaïques, l’essentiel étant de retrouver un sens magique du monde. Nous serons ainsi amener à interroger la fonction fantastique de l’imaginaire initiatique, c’est-à-dire sa capacité à ordonner symboliquement un sens authentique à l’existence sociale et permettre à l’individu de dépasser l’aspect tragique de la réalité opaque. / This research project would like to show that a new era is established (postmodernity) where initiatic imaginary reinvents a new form of socialization. It’s a matter of questioning social practices related to initiatic imaginary (cosplay, japan expo, plays on line), as well as the impact caused in the everyday life of individuals. In fact, we shall wonder whether the initiatic imaginary involves changes of behaviors, creates habitus. What it is necessary to underline, it is that the postmodern man reaches the field of sacred, takes an initiatic step, from what he lives in the fictional worlds. This way of being is completely legitimate, and is connected without any doubt with a new way of living archaic initiation, the main thing being to find a magic direction of the world. Thus we shall be brought to question fantastic function of initiatic imaginary, that is its capacity symbolically to order an authentic direction to social existence and to allow individual to overtake the tragic aspect of opaque reality.

The purpose of this study is to explore the differences within specific temperament traits on emotional processing bias. Participants with extremes in temperament traits Harm Avoidance and Novelty Seeking were categorised and their performance on a computerised neuropsychological test battery was investigated. First year psychology students at a residential university in South Africa were invited to participate in the original study. Processing of the data yielded a realised sample of 431 participants who completed the Emotions battery, which comprised of four tasks. The results show that processing of affective valence varies according to individual differences within specific temperament traits. The findings suggest a negative emotion processing bias in the High HA group in comparison to the low HA group. Furthermore, the impulsive and extroverted High NS group show an increased ability to process emotional faces in comparison to the low NS group. The implications of these findings are discussed in the context of putative risk factors for psychopathological disorders. / Dissertation (MA)--University of Pretoria, 2013. / Psychology / unrestricted

Depression occurs in about one third of patients with stroke and cardiac arrest. Hyperactivity of the stress system is the most commonly observed neuroendocrine change in major depressive disorder (MDD), which involves elevated levels in the cerebrospinal fluid of corticotropin-releasing hormone (CRH), a key stress neurohormone. Substantial evidence suggests that normalization of the stress system may be a requirement for successful treatment of MDD through region-specific changes in the mesocorticolimbic circuitry. Thus, alteration in the stress system may underlie the emotional and functional impairments observed following brain ischemic events. In addition, recent findings suggest that ischemic brain injury triggers a restorative process, creating a cerebral environment similar to that of early brain development, a period characterized by rapid neuronal growth and neuroplasticity, critical to optimize functional recovery of individuals post stroke. In particular brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), has been shown to play an important role in the pathophysiology of major depression and cerebral ischemia. However, whether CRH can mediate the expression of BDNF in the reparative process triggered by ischemic injury remains to be characterized. Therefore, the purpose of the current thesis is to characterize the effect of pharmacological blockade of CRH signaling at the onset of a global ischemic stroke, on emotional and cognitive behaviors, alteration in the neuroendocrine stress system, and markers of neuroplasticity including BDNF. To do this, an animal model of global cerebral ischemia with subsequent behavioral testing and postmortem brain analysis was used to determine underlying biochemical and behavioral changes modulated by CRH signaling following brain ischemia. This doctoral work will help elucidate the relationship between CRH and BDNF in the context of cerebral ischemia, and may provide insights for therapies targeting the stress system. These studies address considerations such as: the interplay between stress, neuroplasticity and emotionality, and whether global ischemia can affect mood via changes in the HPA axis response.

Les catastrophes naturelles font régulièrement la une des actualités en France. Ces événements climatiques extrêmes remettent en question toute la chaîne de gestion des risques naturels car ils sont considérés comme résultant certes d’un phénomène météorologique d’une ampleur extraordinaire mais aussi surtout de dysfonctionnements graves dans la protection des populations face aux éléments naturels, et notamment lors de l’alerte. Ce moment-clé, qui détermine une grande partie de l’événement, reste malgré, les progrès réalisés par les organismes de prévision des phénomènes climatiques, difficile à maîtriser car il repose essentiellement sur des initiatives individuelles et pose le problème de la responsabilité des gestionnaires face à des comportements majoritairement non planifiés et qui peuvent accentuer la crise. L’objectif de la thèse est d’étudier la réactivité de la population lors d’une catastrophe et de montrer quelles sont les particularités de la sociabilité événementielle, phénomène microsocial à la fois temporaire et fortement tourné vers autrui. Le terrain d’étude est la basse vallée du Rhône et ses inondations entre 1755 et 2003. Le recours à l’approche historique se justifie par la volonté de mettre en évidence des permanences dans les comportements humains face aux catastrophes et par la nécessité d’illustrer le concept actuel de culture du risque. Les données empiriques sont des archives et des entretiens auprès d’acteurs de catastrophe. Ces données ont été exploitées avec des méthodes classiques d’analyse de contenu et des méthodes statistiques (statistiques textuelles avec Alceste© et étude des réseaux sociaux par les graphes avec R©). / Natural disasters have regularly been in the news in France. These extreme weather events call into question the entire chain of natural hazard management because they are regarded as resulting from a meteorological phenomenon of extraordinary magnitude, but also especially serious malfunctions in the protection of populations against natural elements, especially during the alert . This key moment, which determines much of the event, remains difficult to control despite the progress made by agencies to forecast weather. Indeed, it is essentially based on individual initiatives and raises the question of accountability of managers towards unplanned actions, the latter may even exacerbate the crisis. This thesis’ objective is to study the reactivity of the population during a disaster and to show what is special about sociability event, phenomenon microsocial both temporary and strongly turned towards others. The study site is flooding in the lower Rhone Valley between 1755 and 2003. Using the historical approach is justified primarily by the desire to highlight the permanence in human behavior during disasters and then by the need to illustrate the present concept of risk culture. The empirical data consist of archive material and interviews with key players in disaster. These data were analyzed by standard methods of content analysis and statistical methods (textual data analysis with Alceste© and the study of social networks by the relational data with R©).