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• Cover, credits and index

Articles

• Is natural selection a chimera?
  Reflections on the ‘survival’ of a principle
  Gláucia Oliveira da Silva

• Sexual desire, testosterone and biomedical interventions:
  managing female sexuality in “ethical doses”
  Fabíola Rohden

• Biological Anthropology in Brazil:
  a preliminary overview
  Verlan Valle Gaspar Neto

• Trust, gender and personhood in birth experiences in
  Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  Claudia Barcellos Rezende

Dossier “The Urban Peripheries”

• Presentation
  Challenges from Peripheries
  Neiva Vieira da Cunha, Jussara Freire, Hélio R. S. Silva

I – State violence: militarization of urban peripheries and ‘pacification apparatus’

• The church helps the UPP, the UPP helps the church
  pacification apparatus, religion and boundary formation in Rio de Janeiro’s urban peripheries
  Carly Barboza Machado

• Notes on the police presence in the urban periphery of Salvador
  Hildon Oliveira Santiago Carade

• Our Dead Can Speak:
  Social Displacements, Affects, and Political Action in Comparative Perspective
  Liliana Sanjurjo

• Houses, tranquility and progress in an área de milícia
  Marcella de Araujo Silva

• State, market and administration of territories in
  the city of Rio de Janeiro
  Márcia Pereira Leite

• Violent action among friends:
  an ethnographic reflection on processes of moral and emotional perceptions and justifications of conduct
  Mauro Guilherme Pinheiro Koury, Raoni Borges Barbosa

• From disarmament to rearmament:
  elements for a sociology of critique of the Pacification Police Unit Program
  Palloma Menezes, Diogo Corrêa

• Transformations in Community Associations and Political Processes in a Rio de Janeiro “Favela”
  Livia De Tommasi, Dafne Jazmin Velazco

II – Socio-spatial sexualities and agency: gender and feminine power field

• Formal attire from one side of the “bridge” to the other:
  the wedding market and class and gender relations inscribed in the territory of the city
  Michele Escoura

• Making out with the city:
  (homo)sexualities and socio-spatial disputes
  in Brazilian “peripheries”
  Ramon Reis

• Political displacements between the periphery and the center through territories and bodies
  Rachel Barros, Juliana Farias