V. 18 • n.1 • Jan.-Mar. 2011

EDITOR`S NOTE ANALYSIS Taxa as types: Buffon, Cuvier and Lamarck Gustavo Caponi text in english The tropics and the rise of the British Empire: Mungo Park’s perspective on Africa in the late eighteenth century Larissa Viana  text in english John Banister: an Elizabethan surgeon in Brazi Amílcar D’Avila de Mello  text in english Fernand Braudel and the geo-history of civilizations Guilherme Ribeiro abstract Brazilian geography congresses from 1909 to 1944 Luciene Pereira Carris Cardoso abstract Popular strategies for identification and treatment of insanity in the first half of the twentieth century: an analysis of medical charts from the Uberaba Spiritist Asylum Alexander Jabert abstract How to find a place in the world: exploring people’s experiences recovering 121 from serious mental disorders Francisco Javier Saavedra Macías abstract The making of madness: counterculture and anti-psychiatry William Vaz de Oliveira abstract A critical analysis of research guidelines in Chinese medicine Eduardo Frederico Alexander Amaral de Souza, Madel Therezinha Luz abstract Sociocultural aspects of vaccination in an indigenous region Luiza Garnelo abstract IMAGES The Indian in Brazilian photography: incursions into image and medium Fernando de Tacca  abstract SOURCES Predictions are always deceptive: João Baptista de Lacerda and his white Brazil Lilia Moritz Schwarcz  abstract BOOKS & NETWORKS The critique of a discourse: how could young people become protagonists? • review by Victor Amaral Costa on O discurso do protagonismo juvenil, by Regina Magalhães de Souza text in portuguese The national question in Latin America: the rough road of comparative approaches • review by Claudia Wasserman on Estado e nação no Brasil e no Chile ao longo do século XIX, by Marco Pamplona and Ana Maria Stuven text in portuguese The dilemmas of an ethnography of racial classification within institutional frameworks • review by Fátima Cecchetto on O corpo da nação: classificação racial e gestão social da reprodução em hospitais da rede pública do Rio de Janeiro, by Valéria Ribeiro Corossacz text in portuguese Emílio Goeldi and the Paraense Museum: in quest of an understanding of nature in the Amazon • review by Luciana Rossato on Emílio Goeldi (1859-1917): a ventura de um naturalista entre a Europa e o Brasil, by Nelson Sanjad text in portuguese Is there certainty in uncertainty? • review by Wilton Barroso on A parte e o todo, by Werner Heisenberg text in portuguese Madness, Christian charity, and modernity in Arraial do Tijuco • review by Leandro de Martino Mota on Hospício de Diamantina: a loucura na cidade moderna, by Maria Cláudia Almeida Orlando Magnani text in portuguese Masculinity on the threshold of a new era • review by Lucila Scavone on Sexualidade masculina, gênero e saúde, by Romeu Gomes text in portuguese