O texto tem por objeto de análise a comunidade rural Matá, localizada no baixo Amazonas, Pará, a aproximadamente 55 km da cidade de Óbidos. É uma abordagem etnográfica do cotidiano dos moradores, especialmente em suas atividades na pesca, focalizando, mais precisamente, a participação das crianças. Tomamos como referência o conceito de habitus, desenvolvido por Pierre Bourdieu, para demonstrar que as atividades desenvolvidas pelas crianças e pelos jovens dessa comunidade na pesca não têm o caráter aviltante, que geralmente está associado à ideia de trabalho infantil; ao contrário, a inserção das crianças no trabalho funciona como uma estratégia de socialização e de autorreprodução, indispensável para o fortalecimento dos laços familiares, para a construção da distinção entre a fase adulta e a meninice e para a aprendizagem das técnicas de lidar com os ecossistemas dos quais fazem parte.

This text discusses the care of children and adolescents victims of sexual abuse and the credibility of its narrative in justice institutions. Documentary analysis was carried out in seventy-nine cases sentenced in the Special Court for Children and Adolescents of the city of Belém in the year of 2017. The main findings of the survey indicate the existence of a controversy in relation to the credibility of the testimony of children victims of abuse, the positive and negative aspects of the practice of professionals responsible for mediating the collection of such statements and the precariousness of technical instruments and the human material placed at the disposal of justice, whose shortage directly impacts on the final result of the judgments, generating impunity and new victimization of children. ISSN 2220-8488 (Print), 2221 ©Center for Promoting Ideas, USA www.ijhssnet.com 109The discussion we propose is organized into three topics: at first, we present arguments harvested in the international debate about the credibility of the children's testimony; in the second, we show the main differences between the strategy adopted in Brazil for the collection of this kind of testimony and the form as it occurs in other countries; third, we present a panorama of the testimonies of children in the Special Court for Children and Adolescents in the judicial district of Belém city.

This article analyzes indigence as a social phenomenon and discusses the factors that have contributed to its permanence over time. The study focuses on street people in Belém, Pará state, Brazil, as an expression of indigence and how public authorities have treated the issue. To provide context, we discuss 19th century social hygiene polices and show how attitudes toward the homeless and thus treatment of this group has changed over time. The current homeless situation is related to the effects of neoliberal policies, psychiatric and prison deinstitutionalization processes and changes related to drug use and availability. Perception and treatment of the homeless are based are based on the biased view that these individuals are unproductive citizens or even criminals. Research results show that, while homeless populations have generally increased across the globe, we observe specific traits related to social exclusion tendencies present for centuries at the local level in Belém.

O texto, especialmente, objetiva trazer uma reflexão sobre a sociedade de consumo e suas implicações, tanto para os sujeitos quanto para o processo civilizatório. O trabalho parte da tentativa de uma caracterização da modernidade com base na teoria elaborada por Karl Marx e o conceito de mercadoria; a partir de então apoiado na teoria de Sigmud Freud mostra os fatores desencadeantes do mal-estar na civilização; e, finalmente, com as contribuições de Theodor Adorno e Max Horkheimer, Anthony Giddens e Zygmunt Bauman aponta as consequências de uma época de aprofundamentos alienantes em torno da sociedade de consumo.

This article discusses processes of human trafficking for prostitution in Mozambique. It begins by situating the African continent within the dynamics of globalization processes, associating human trafficking with poverty and discussing it as a profitable illegal activity conducted on a global scale. It continues by presenting the historical factors and economic constraints that put the Mozambican population in a vulnerable situation in relation to human trafficking and prostitution. The article then examines how the perceptions of police regarding women trafficked for prostitution are affected by the local institution referred to as Mualy. Quantitative data come from the Statistic Brain Research Institute, compiled from the following reports: UNAIDS, World Bank and Demographic Dividend for the period of 2010 to 2017. Qualitative data were collected through ten interviews with the Provincial Command Squads of the Police of the Mozambique Republic (PRM) of Nampula, a city located in northern Mozambique. Results show that cultural factors interfere with how Mozambican police perceive human trafficking for prostitution and that such interferences undermine authorities’ strategies to combat this type of crime.