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Socio-Environmental Dynamics in Brazil: Maranhão
PORT 3270
Summer 2016
Department of Spanish and Portuguese/OIE
June 28th to July 24th
Dr. Tania Martuscelli: [email protected]
Dr. Marcelo Schincariol: [email protected]
On-site provider: Israel Silva Diniz (Centro de Direitos Humanos, Barreirinhas): [email protected]
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
This 6-credit upper-division course provides students with the opportunity to visit and conduct fieldwork in
rural and traditional communities in Maranhão, Northeastern Brazil. These groups of fishermen, quilombolas,
farmers, indigenous people, ribeirinhos, etc. are part of the 217 communities that constitute the town of
Barreirinhas, the main entrance to the National Park of Lençois Maranhenses. The students will be fully
immersed in the Portuguese language, and will be in close contact with different cultural settings and
ecosystems. PORT 3270 will explore some of the most pressing issues related to human rights of traditional
communities, tourism, and other environmental dynamics.
The course will be taught in Portuguese, and will stress the value of teaching language competency through
exploration of real-life issues in the context in which they are taking place. The course structure provides
the ideal context for not only furthering students’ mastery of Portuguese, the 6th most spoken language in
the world, but also stresses the importance of gaining cultural intelligence1 to foster more effective personal
and professional connections in a globalized world. This course supports CU’s institutional commitment,
expressed in Flagship 2030 Challenge, which focuses on “redefining learning and discovery in a global
context and setting new standards in education, research, scholarship, and creative work that will benefit
Colorado and the world.”
Course Pre-requisite: PORT 2350 (Portuguese for Spanish/Romance Language Speakers) OR PORT 2110
(Second-year Portuguese 1). PORT 1020 by instructor’s permission only.
Course Objectives:
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Students will gain practical fieldwork experience by conducting their researches in the Portuguese
language.
Students will gain knowledge about key theoretical aspects of socio-environmental dynamics in the
Brazilian context.
Students will learn ways to analyze and critically think about the complex, challenging, and dynamic
relationships among traditional communities, local and federal governments.
Students will develop their skills in analyzing problems, thinking critically, conducting primary and
secondary-source research, writing and making an argument in the Portuguese language.
Students will have the opportunity to become familiar with and visit communities that are not easily
accessible to tourists.
We follow Early and Ang’s (2003) model of cultural intelligence, which merges the literature on intelligence and cross-cultural
understanding to create a new perspective on intercultural interaction.
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COURSE ASSIGNMENTS AND GRADING BREAKDOWN:
Summary of Assignments and Grading
Assignment
Percentage of Your Grade
Research proposal (to be developed during
20%
pre-departure meetings)
Reading Discussions
20%
Final Paper
25%
Community Report
10%
Participation and engagement
25%
Research Proposal
Students will meet with instructors before departure in order to design a research proposal that suits their
academic goals. This proposal must be submitted to the IRB (Institutional Review Board) BEFORE departure.
Reading Discussions
Each week we will read several articles, book excerpts, and other scholarly works that will help to illuminate
both, the thematic topics of the course, and the cultural settings involved in the experience abroad. The
authors of these articles comprise an interdisciplinary group of scholars. All texts are in Portuguese.
Final Paper and Community Report
Students will take notes along the visits and reading discussions, and will later write a 15-page Final Paper in
Portuguese. A shorter version of this paper, the Community Report (5 pages), will be sent to the
communities involved in the respective research.
Syllabus Changes:
The instructors reserve the right to change aspects of the syllabus due to unforeseen circumstances and/or
to increase students learning opportunities.
COURSE INSTRUCTORS:
Drs. Tania Martuscelli and Marcelo Schincariol are both members of the multidisciplinary research group
“Society, Environment, Literature”, involving the University of Colorado at Boulder and the Federal
University of Maranhão (UFMA). Both professors are Brazilians, and have a vast experience teaching
Brazilian culture, literature and language, and have experience bringing students to Brazil. She is an Assistant
Professor of Luso-Brazilian Studies, and he is an Instructor of Portuguese Language and Culture, both in the
Department of Spanish and Portuguese at UCB.
PRE-DEPARTURE ORIENTATION SESSIONS (CU Campus, Spring 2016):
4 hours of on-campus orientation led by OIE and/or course professors. Eventually one-on-one meetings may
be scheduled with students to discuss a suitable, individualized, research proposal.
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READING LIST:
 Acselrad, Henri. Cartografia social e dinâmicas territoriais: marcos para o debate. Rio de Janeiro:
IPPUR-UFRJ, 2008. (Excerpts).
 Andrade, Maristela de Paula. "Atingidos e Quilombolas – disputa territorial, modalidades de
resistência e dinâmicas de mediação em Alcântara" (Unpublished book chapter by Brazilian faculty
leading the field research in Maranhão) 40 pp.
 Andrade, Maristela de Paula. Conflitos Socioambientais no Leste Maranhense. São Luís: UFMA, 2012.
 Arruda, R. S. V. "'Populações Tradicionais’ e a proteção dos recursos naturais em unidades de
conservação". In: A. C. Diegues. Etnoconservação: Novos Rumos para a Proteção da Natureza nos
Trópicos. São Paulo: Hucitec-Annablume, 2000. (pp 273-290)
 Balée, William. "Sobre a indigeneidade das paisagens". Revista de Arqueologia, 21(2), 2008. p. 9-21.
 Bhabha, Homi. “A outra questão: O estereótipo, a discriminação e o discurso do colonialismo”. In: O
local da cultura. Tradução Myriam Ávila, Eliana L. de L. Reis e Gláucia R. Gonçalves. Belo Horizonte:
Editora UFMG, 1998, pp. 105-138.
 Bourdieu, Pierre. Compreender In: A miséria do mundo. Petrópolis: Vozes, 1997. (Excerpts).
 Burawoy, Michael. "Por uma sociologia pública". In: Ruy Braga, et al (org). Por uma Sociologia
Pública. São Paulo: Alameda, 2009. p. 15-66.
 Correa, Roberto Lobato; Iná dos Santos et al. Geografia: Conceito e Terra. Rio de Janeiro: Bertrand,
1995. 352 pp (Excerpts).
 Cunha, Manuela Carneiro da. “Patrimônio imaterial e biodiversidade.” Revista Patrimônio Histórico e
artístico Nacional, n. 32, 2005. 373 pp (Excerpts).
 Diegues, Antonio Carlos; Arruda, Rinaldo. Saberes Tradicionais e Biodiversidade no Brasil. Brasilia:
Ministério do Meio Ambiente, 2001. (pp.1-40)
 Escobar, Arturo. "O lugar da natureza, a natureza do lugar: globalização ou pós-desenvolvimento?"
In: Edgardo Lander. A Colonialidade do saber: eurocentrismo e ciências sociais. Buenos Aires:
CLACSO, 2005. (pp 63-79)
 Freire, Paulo. Pedagogia do Oprimido. Rio de Janeiro: Paz e Terra, 2005. (Excerpts).
 Gomez-Pompa, Arturo; Kaus, Andrea. "Domesticando o mito da natureza selvagem". In: A.C.
Diegues, Etnoconservação: Novos Rumos para a Proteção da Natureza nos Trópicos. São Paulo:
Hucitec-Annablume, 2000. (pp 125-147).
 Lima, Deborah; Pozzobon, Jorge. "Amazônia socioambiental. Sustentabilidade ecológica e
diversidade social". Estudos Avançados, 19 (54), 2005. p. 45-76.
 Matta, Roberto da. O ofício do etnólogo ou como ter “anthropological blues”. IN: Nunes, Edson
(org.). A Aventura sociológica. Rio de Janeiro: Zahar, 1978 pp. 23-35.
 Oliveira, Roberto Cardoso de. “O trabalho do antropólogo: olhar, ouvir, escrever”. In: O Trabalho do
Antropólogo. Brasília: Paralelo 15; São Paulo: UNESP, 2000. pp. 17-35.
 Oliveira, L. R. C. “O ofício do antropólogo, ou como desvendar evidências simbólicas”. In: Anuário
Antropológico, v. 2006, p. 9-30, 2008.
 Silveira, Flávio. "A paisagem como fenômeno complexo, reflexões sobre um tema interdisciplinar".
In: Flávio Silveira; Cristina D. Cancela (org). Paisagem e Cultura: Dinâmica do Patrimônio e da
Memória da Atualidade. Belém: EDUFPA, 2009.
 Velho, Gilberto. “Observando o familiar”. In: Individualismo e cultura. Rio de Janeiro: Zahar, 1981.
 White, William Foote. 2005. “Sobre a evolução de Sociedade de Esquina”. In: Sociedade de Esquina: a
estrutura social de uma área urbana pobre e degradada. Rio de Janeiro: Jorge Zahar, 1993. pp. 283363.
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