Translated by Rachel Long and Francisco Vilhena.
Before we hear the poem in both in the original Brazilian Portugese and English translation, the poet Adelaide Ivánova talks about the importance of resarch in her work and how she discovered the work of a British anthropologist called Dame Mary Douglas.
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