Silvia Hunold Lara

• Abstract

  The book "Blacksmiths of Ilamba. A Social History of Labor at the Nova Oeiras Iron Foundry (Angola, 18th century)" analyzes the establishment of an iron foundry in the interior of Angola, in the 18th-century. The Portuguese Enlightenment encouraged investment in manufacturing, particularly iron, a metal indispensable for military and technological purposes. However, the colonial plans fac…

  Blacksmiths of Ilamba: a social history of labor at the Nova Oeiras Iron Foundry (Angola, 18th Century), PUB.LVR.EXT

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  The academic visit of Alida Christine Metcalf to CECULT-UNICAMP aims to deepen the exchange of scholarship and scientific collaboration in the areas of digital cartography and historical cartography. Professor Metcalf has been developing important projects in this area, such as ImagineRio and the study of representations of the Atlantic World on early 16th century maps. A number of indivi…

  Digital cartography and historical cartography of the Atlantic world, AV.EXT

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  Taking as its point of departure the ambiguities of the boundary between slavery and free labor and of the legal framework regulating labor relations, this project proposes to analyze situations and contexts in which different work regimes, rather than standing as dichotomous, coexist or even complement one another. The aim is not just to discuss intermediate cases between slavery and oth…

  Between slavery and the burden of freedom: workers and forms of labor exploitation in historical perspective, AP.TEM

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  This project investigates the power relations between Central Africans and Europeans in Central Africa in the 17th century. During this period, the strife between the Kingdoms of Kongo, Ndongo, Kasanje and Matamba, among others, was reconfigured by the European presence in the region since the end of the 15th century. The research focuses on the relationships among the various Central Afr…

  Brave men of black skin: war and power in Angola in the 17th century, BP.MS

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  This research proposal aims to transform science communication into journalistic materials in order to disseminate the research and activities currently developedby the Center for Research in Cultural and Social History at University of Campinas (CECULT/UNICAMP). In addition to communicate a diverse range of scientific activities carried out by the CECULT, this work will promote publishe…

  History is Science: Science communication in the Center for research in cultural and social History at Unicamp, BP.JC

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  This project analyses the indigenous legislation during the Brazilian republican period, from the creation of the Indian Protection Service (Serviço de Proteção aos Índios - SPI), in 1910, until the 1988 Constitution. The purpose is to understand the relationship between the institution of "tutelage" and the transformation of the Indian into a "national worker". The analysis will focus on…

  Tutelage, assistance and indigenous labor in the Brazilian Republic period (1910-1988), BP.IC

(Only some records are available in English at this moment)

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  This current project of Research Internship Abroad aims to enable the consultation of Portuguese archives and libraries, needed for the doctorate (in progress) in the Graduate Program in Social History of Africa in the State University of Campinas, under the supervision of Professor Silvia Lara. The applicant retains a PhD Scholarship funded by FAPESP, which project titled "Colonial Plans…

  Research internship in Portuguese archives for the study of the iron factory Nova Oeiras (Angola, the second half of the Eighteenth Century), BE.EP.DR