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BOOKS
1971 The End of a Tradition: Culture Change and Development in the Municípioof Cunha, São Paulo, Brazil. Columbia University Press, New York and London.
1977 O Fim de uma Tradição (Translation of my 1971 book with a new Preface and 12th Chapter, "Cunha, Doze Anos Depois," published by the Editóra Perspectiva, Série Debates, No. 141, São Paulo.
1987 Antropologia Juridica, Editora Saraiva, São Paulo.
 
ARTICLES
1962with A.K. Romney: "Love Magic and Socialization Anxiety: A Cross Cultural Survey," American Anthropologist, Vol. 64, No. 5. Oct. Pt. 1, pp. 1028-31
1964 with R.G. Desai: "Association of Leukemia and Blood Groups," The Journal of Medical Genetics, vol. 2, No. 3.
1967 "The End of a Tradition": Ph.D. Thesis for Columbia University in the City of New York, published by University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
*1970 "Politics and Labour Migration in Brazil: The Politics of Underemployment," in Manpower and Economic Development, Institute of Developing Areas, McGill University, Montreal, PQ., Vol 2, No. 1, pp. 45-48.
1971 "Social and Economic Change in the Municipío of Cunha," Ciências Econômicas e Sociais, São Paulo, Vol. 6, No. 2. pp. 93-101.
1973 "Patronage and Cooperation, An Analysis from São Paulo State," in Patronage and the Power Structure in Latin America, A. Strikon and S. Greenfield, editors; The University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, NM.
1978 "Legal Institutions and Early Industrial Growth: Manchester/São Paulo," in the Stanford Journal of International Studies, Vol. XIII, Spring, pp. 157-176. Also later published in book form: Manchester and São Paulo, John Wirth, and Robert L. Jones editors, Stanford University Press, Stanford, California.
1979 "Law in Rural Brazil" in Brazil, Anthropological Perspectives: Essays in Honor of Charles Wagley, Maxine L Margolis and William E. Carter, Editors, pp. 343-361. Columbia University Press, New York.
1987 "A Brief Survey of Law in Brazil" in NS: The Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Volume XII, Number 23, 1987; pp. 1-13.
1990 "Recreating Communities: The Formation of Community in a Brazilian Shantytown," in Urban Anthropology, Vol. 19, Number 3, 1990, pp. 255-276.
*1991 "A lições de Cunha" in the Folia de São Paulo, 9/8/1991, p. 10-2.
v1991 "Gaúcho Identity and Regional Nationalism, A Case Study of the Traditionalist Movement in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil," in the Journal of Latin American Lore, #17, pp. 199-224, Journal of the Latin American Institute of U. C. L. A.
v*1992 "Brazil in Toronto" in the Abacaxi Times, (a newspaper of the Brazilian Community in Toronto): No. 8, November, 1992, p. 7,
1992 "Introdução ão Livro de José Velloso" in Jose' VELLOSO Sobrinho: Uma Causa Sério, pp. 11-13, Centro de Cultura e Tradição de Cunha, Cunha, São Paulo.
1994 "Brazilians in Canada" article for the Encyclopedia of the Canadian People, published by the Multi - Cultural History Society of Ontario, Toronto.
*1995 "A Case of Kidnapping - and a Case of Prejudice" Review of two books: "Wrong Time, Wrong place," by Caroline Mallan and "See no Evil," by Isabel Vincent, in The Financial Post, May 20, 1995, p.33
v1996 "The Moçambique and the Parabola, How Weekend Tourism is helping to Preserve Folk Traditions in Rural São Paulo, Brazil" in ANTHROPOS: 91, Berichte und Kommentare, pp. 545-551; Köln, Germany.
*1997 "Atitudes com Relação à Policia em uma Favela do Sul do Brasil," in Tempo Social: Revista de Sociologica da USP, Volume 9 - 1, Maio de 1997, pp. 215-231, São Paulo.
1997 "Faith and Freedom (a brief history of Afro-Brazilian Religion)," in The Queen's Quarterly, Winter 1997, pp. 690-711/

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