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An indigenous boy uses his fingers to imitate the sound of a bird. Photo by Luiz de Castro Faria, 1938. MAST archives.<\/p><\/div>\n
The article\u00a0published\u00a0in the last version\u00a0of the journal\u00a0Asclepio<\/em>\u00a0(71 (2), jul-dec 2019)\u00a0presents the collections gathered during the so-called Rondon Commission, that comprises, in fact, several expeditions held between 1907 and 1915 at the beginning of the republican period in Brazil, a period strongly marked by positivist thinking.<\/p>\n “The main objective was to construct telegraph lines in order to create intercommunication between the various states of the country and these with the federal capital and, or the world”, observes.<\/p>\n The authors approach the expeditions led by the anthropologist Luiz de Castro Faria, during the 1940s and 1950s, along the coast of the country, from Rio Grande do Sul to Bahia. Also\u00a0to be considered as part of these series\u00a0is\u00a0 the well-known expedition to the Serra do Norte, in Mato Grosso, in 1938, whose head was Claude L\u00e9vi-Straus and of which Castro Faria participated as representative of the National Museum and of the Council of Inspection of the Artistic and Scientific Expeditions.<\/p>\n The collections assembled in both series of expeditions were destined for the National Museum of Rio de Janeiro.<\/p>\n Read the full article available in\u00a0Asclepio<\/em>\u00a0(71(2), jul-dec 2019) here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n