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Thaddeus Blanchette is a professor of anthropology at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro-Macaé.

CITED WORK BY Thaddeus Blanchette

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    Police as pimps

    Rio anthropologist Thaddeus Blanchette breaks down one of the unspoken facts of prostitution in Rio: the police work as pimps, and the militia provides “security.” In this video ...

    On November 20, 2014 / By jruv
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    The Orgy that Wasn’t

    Anthropologist Thaddeus Blanchette at the Federal University Rio de Janeiro of Macaé presents the Observatory of Prostitution’s preliminary findings of research on the World Cup effect on Rio de Janeiro’s sex industry ...

    On November 11, 2014 / By jruv
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    Observatory of Prostitution report on World Cup sex tourism in Rio

    I am honored to be working as a research collaboration with Rio’s Observatory of Prostitution, an extension project of the Metropolitan Ethnographic Lab – LeMetro/IFCS-UFRJ at the Federal ...

    On June 30, 2014 / By jruv
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    The Myth of Maria

    What is the profile of a Brazilian sex trafficking victim? Brazilian anthropologists Ana Paula da Silva, Thaddeus Blanchette and Andressa Raylane Bento explain how the common face of Brazilian sex trafficking ...

    On March 10, 2014 / By jruv
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    Brazilian Sex Trafficking

    Is sex trafficking a problem in Brazil? Do Brazilian women get trafficked abroad? Brazilian anthropologists Ana Paula da Silva, Thaddeus Blanchette and Andressa Raylane Bento unpack how a ...

    On March 10, 2014 / By jruv
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    World Cup Sex Panic

    Anthropologist Thaddeus Blanchette and historian Cristiana Schettini provide a history of  Rio sex in their 2013 paper, Sex Work in Rio de Janeiro: “More than tolerated – effectively managed”. Published to RED LIGHT ...

    On January 26, 2014 / By jruv
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    Prostitution Today in Rio

    Anthropologist Thaddeus Blanchette and historian Cristiana Schettini provide a history of  Rio sex in their 2013 paper, Sex Work in Rio de Janeiro: “More than tolerated – effectively managed”. Published to RED LIGHT ...

    On January 26, 2014 / By jruv
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    Police as Madams

    Anthropologist Thaddeus Blanchette and historian Cristiana Schettini provide a history of  Rio sex in their 2013 paper, Sex Work in Rio de Janeiro: “More than tolerated – effectively managed”. Published to RED LIGHT ...

    On January 26, 2014 / By jruv
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    Prostitution Markets and Sanitation Campaigns

    Anthropologists Thaddeus Blanchette and Cristiana Schettini provide a history of  Rio sex in their 2013 paper, Sex Work in Rio de Janeiro: “More than tolerated – effectively managed”. Published to RED ...

    On January 26, 2014 / By jruv
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    Prostitution in Rio: “Not Illegal”

     Anthropologist Thaddeus Blanchette and historian Cristiana Schettini provide a history of  Rio sex in their 2013 paper, Sex Work in Rio de Janeiro: “More than tolerated – effectively managed”. Published to ...

    On January 25, 2014 / By jruv
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    A History of Rio Sex

     Anthropologist Thaddeus Blanchette and historian Cristiana Schettini provide a history of  Rio sex in their 2013 paper, Sex Work in Rio de Janeiro: “More than tolerated – effectively managed”.   The ...

    On January 25, 2014 / By jruv
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    Vila Mimosa: An Eviction Timeline

    Rio has a history of warring with its prostitutes when tourists come to town that stretches back 100 years. When King Albert of Belgium came to town in ...

    On January 23, 2014 / By jruv
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