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Portuguese to English Anthropology Translation Glossary

Portuguese term		English translation
antídoto do mal		The antidote to evil
apresentação		preface
auto-afirmação étnica		(right to) assert their own ethnic identity
Banzas e Sobados		Banzas and Sobados
Classe C		Lower-middle class	Sonny Tissot
Entered by: Sonny Tissot
Cumprir Promessa		To fulfil a vow (made to a saint)	Carla Selyer
Entered by: Carla Selyer
dotadores e dotados		dowry givers and receivers/dowry givers and dowry receivers	Margarida Ataide
Entered by: Margarida Ataide
em dar continuidade ao		to continue with
etnografada		ethnographically studied/analysed/described	Wendy Gosselin
Entered by: Wendy Gosselin
expressões individuais de fala		expressions of speech
extrativistas		extractivists
Família do Sul		Southern Family
grande comunidade brasileira de cultura e língua basicamente européias		(...within) the larger Brazilian community of essentially European culture and language
Imagens de cura		healing images	Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Entered by: Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
indústria lítica lascada e polida		knapped and polished stone (flint) industry
jagunço		henchman	Ana Vozone
Entered by: Ana Vozone
kairós		kairos (moment)
luta contra o arbítrio		Fight/struggle against arbitrariness
máscara de arame		wire mask
Modelagem e análise de fatores influentes na gravidez na adolescência na microrr		model(l)ing and analysis of factors influencing teenage pregnancy...	Luciano Eduardo de Oliveira
Entered by: Luciano Eduardo de Oliveira
na alfabetização		in the teaching of basic literacy
Nambikwara do Norte		North Nambikwara
O interesse suscitado pelas obras...		The interest generated by the works...
parente		kin
parentescos por brincadeira		joking relationships	Todd Field
Entered by: Todd Field
que inclui o ilícito, o ilegal		including that which is illicit, illegal, ...
relação de servientes/patrões		master-servant relationship
ressemantizando		(is being) given a new meaning/reinterpreted/resemanticised
se deslocarem		they continue to move from place to place around/within the...
se exterminam		die
segundo ele mesmo afirma		according to his words/his own words
tipitis		tool for pressing (manioc (pulp)) OR manioc press