Surnames of 6002 individuals from a mixed population of Bahia State in Brazil were studied. Out of 448 surnames identified .50 (11%) were devotional in origin. The frequency of devotional surnames increases with Negro admixture and is higher in females. The five most common devotional surnames account for 31% of the population. Documents from the XVIII and XIX centuries revealed that the majority of slaves remained without a surname after getting free. However, among those who acquired a surname the preferential method was to take a devotional surname different from the master’s family name. This finding fits well with the observed effect of race on the frequency of devotional surnames. Nevertheless, there is also some evidence that at the ...
Surnames, information of cultural nature used to identify people and family groups, include simultan...
The adult members of 200 families from a town in Northeastern Brazil, studied as part of a project o...
Baptismal records can provide valuable information to build the social history of the black populat...
Surnames of 6002 individuals from a mixed population of Bahia State in Brazil were studied. Out of 4...
Surnames were studied in two Brazilian samples: one from Manaus, capital of the state of Amazon, and...
Among 3602 blood donors from a mixed population of Bahia, Brazil the relationship between ABO blood ...
MARIANO, Victor Cavalcanti. A antroponímia dos matriculados na sociedade protetora dos desvalidos du...
Twenty per cent (n = 29,755) of the total school children population of sixty localities over the St...
The variability of the lengths of the heterochromatic and euchromatic segments of the human Y chromo...
This paper presents a method for classifying the ancestry of Brazilian surnames based on historical ...
Traditionally, it has been assumed that the adoption of surnames among African Americans evolved fro...
An analysis of surname frequencies was used for the study of population structure. The surnames in t...
Background: Brazilian Quilombos are Afro-derived communities founded mainly by fugitive slaves betwe...
Several studies have shown that the Brazilian Northeast is a region with high rates of inbreeding as...
Esta dissertação estuda padrões sociais e raciais de nomes e sobrenomes entre alunos paulistas e a c...
Surnames, information of cultural nature used to identify people and family groups, include simultan...
The adult members of 200 families from a town in Northeastern Brazil, studied as part of a project o...
Baptismal records can provide valuable information to build the social history of the black populat...
Surnames of 6002 individuals from a mixed population of Bahia State in Brazil were studied. Out of 4...
Surnames were studied in two Brazilian samples: one from Manaus, capital of the state of Amazon, and...
Among 3602 blood donors from a mixed population of Bahia, Brazil the relationship between ABO blood ...
MARIANO, Victor Cavalcanti. A antroponímia dos matriculados na sociedade protetora dos desvalidos du...
Twenty per cent (n = 29,755) of the total school children population of sixty localities over the St...
The variability of the lengths of the heterochromatic and euchromatic segments of the human Y chromo...
This paper presents a method for classifying the ancestry of Brazilian surnames based on historical ...
Traditionally, it has been assumed that the adoption of surnames among African Americans evolved fro...
An analysis of surname frequencies was used for the study of population structure. The surnames in t...
Background: Brazilian Quilombos are Afro-derived communities founded mainly by fugitive slaves betwe...
Several studies have shown that the Brazilian Northeast is a region with high rates of inbreeding as...
Esta dissertação estuda padrões sociais e raciais de nomes e sobrenomes entre alunos paulistas e a c...
Surnames, information of cultural nature used to identify people and family groups, include simultan...
The adult members of 200 families from a town in Northeastern Brazil, studied as part of a project o...
Baptismal records can provide valuable information to build the social history of the black populat...