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The book “In search of explanations about African words: an investigation in some Brazilian dictionaries and / or glossaries (1889-2006)” raises controversial and relevant questions about the usefulness of Africanism for Brazil and the delimitation between Afro-Brazilian and africanists studies. The work is one of the results of the work that the author has been developing throughout his long and rich academic life. The author shows enthusiasm for the study of Brazilian Africanism, especially in what concerns on the relationships that are established between words and culture.It shows the participation of African languages in the constitution of the Brazilian Portuguese lexicon, since it considers that studies in this area have been taking place very slowly. Therefore, this work intends to promote the production of future researches that discuss about the social place of African words in Brazilian Portuguese. It makes a point of which we should have no doubt in affirming - unequivocally and systematically - that one can speak of Brazilian Africanism. It takes as a starting point the analysis of dictionaries and glossaries (1889-2006), while taking a retrospective look.It reflects, with such observation, about what is classified as Africanism in the Brazilian Portuguese lexicon. It suggests the need to draw a line between Afro-Brazilian and Africanists studies. Finally, it is expected that such a work can bring new look and perspectives. It is even verified that, in his text, there is a lot of work for everyone. That´s why this work in this book is considered by the author as a singular value.

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Why is critical thinking so important in academic life?

International Journal of Psychosocial Rehabilitation ◽

10.37200/ijpr/v24i3/pr200780 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 24 (03) ◽

pp. 282-285

Author(s):

Mamadjanova Nozima Adxamovna

Keyword(s):

Critical Thinking ◽

Academic Life

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This Lecture Might Be Messy: The Role of Gender in Academic Life

SSRN Electronic Journal ◽

10.2139/ssrn.1544849 ◽

2010 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Becki Scola ◽

Lindsey Lupo

Keyword(s):

Academic Life

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“I have Learned Non-Euclidean Geometry Just from this Book” - Some facets of the correspondence between Friedrich Engel and David Hilbert

Results in Mathematics ◽

10.1007/s00025-021-01431-4 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 76 (3) ◽

Author(s):

Peter Ullrich

Keyword(s):

Present Article ◽

19Th Century ◽

Euclidean Geometry ◽

Academic Life ◽

David Hilbert ◽

Non Euclidean Geometry ◽

The 19Th Century

AbstractFriedrich Engel and David Hilbert learned to know each other at Leipzig in 1885 and exchanged letters in particular during the next 15 years which contain interesting information on the academic life of mathematicians at the end of the 19th century. In the present article we will mainly discuss a statement by Hilbert himself on Moritz Pasch’s influence on his views of geometry, and on personnel politics concerning Hermann Minkowski and Eduard Study but also Engel himself.

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Coming Home

Law & Social Inquiry ◽

10.1111/j.1747-4469.1994.tb00772.x ◽

1994 ◽

Vol 19 (03) ◽

pp. 599-603

Author(s):

Christine B. Harrington ◽

John Brigham

Keyword(s):

The Other ◽

Academic Life ◽

Intellectual Life ◽

Social Scientists ◽

Ongoing Effort ◽

English Law

Ever since the formation of an academic bar, one which left the “practical world” of apprentices and clerkships barely 100 years ago, the architects of law's intellectual life have looked outside the canons of lawyers' law to academic life and its deep thinkers for stimulation. From the German social scientists of Pound's time to Foucault in our own, the erotica of the legal academy have often been drawn from French and German philosophers and social theorists. There may be, in fact, a pattern to this inclination in America to draw insights from the “wild passion” of the French or the “dark terror” of the Germans. There is certainly an ongoing effort to avoid England in both its commonness and its construction of the “savage” or the ethnographically primitive “other” on which English law based its authority for so long. American sociolegal intellectuals, as part of the legal academy, crave a hit of the “other” on the continent of Europe, having denuded the American forests of its native occupants.

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