Our country has an enormous variety of ways of life and cultures which end up developing specific relations based on the dependence upon natural cycles, due to the fact that they are somewhat isolated. Among other characteristics, their symbols and…

Diving  in  the dynamic Amazonian social  life, ruled by  the temporality of  waters, the article follows, through dialogues between History and Literature, marajoara populations’ ways of  being and living,  highlighting  their African/Indigenous  heritage  and  local knowledge, which  resulted  from  cultural…

The word ‘Bioethics’ presents, from the beginning, a double aspect. It characterizes a specific discourse, denotes several practices, assumes academic facets, generates knowledge disputes theoretical space, at the same time that occupies clinics, cares for the living together of human…

This paper aims at reflecting upon our participation in environmental conflicts through responsible attitudes concerning environmental education. Its main theoretical reference is the thought of Humberto Maturana, a Chilean thinker. The text exposes Maturana’s proposals, i. e., the core of…

Based on the Program for Environmental Educatioon, approved in "Tiblisi Conference", Environmental Education is now counting on important basic lines that, however, do not descry of a methodology which orientates to an interdisciplinary practice in schools. This article analyses the…

For more than a century, the Lagoa dos Patos estuary has become an important small-scale fishery in the south of Brazil. In the last twenty years, the environmental system of small-scale fishery has collapsed, with harmful reflexes on the region’s…

This essay is based on bibliographical references of Humanities and the Applied Social Sciences. It presents propositions for enlarging the understanding of Tourism. Tourism is defined as the study of the relationship between the human displacement and permanence based in…

A comunicação e a informação são as principais preocupações do homem e da instituição moderna. Delas dependem o desenvolvimento técnico, científico, econômico e social de todas as comunidades humanas. Precisamos da informação certa no momento certo. A identidade de um…

Antes de relatar o trabalho que o Arquivo Público desenvolve com a documentação de Jorge Lacerda, e preciso dizer quem foi, o que fez e o que nos deixou este grande homem público. Jorge Lacerda nasceu em 1915 na cidade…

A existência do Arquivo Histórico do Rio Grande do Sul,destacado há algumas dezenas de anos do Arquivo Público (Secretaria da Justiça), justifica-se pelo seu caráter de colecionador de
papéis da terceira idade. Neste sentido e conveniente desde logo estabelecer a…