Abstract:After presenting a brief look at the historical development of Brazil's demography during the period 1970 -1995, and seeking to show the wide range, in social, economic and geographic terms, of these studies accomplished by researchers in this area, the author will show how it is possible, based on existing empirical studies of demographic history, to access information about the socioeconomic life of the Brazilian populations of the past. Also, to identify the geographic areas of the dispersal of groups of th… Show more
scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.