RESUMO Estudo sobre a tela A morte do padre Filipe Bourel, pintura a óleo anônima que alude a uma missão jesuítica organizada entre os indígenas da nação Paiacu no final do século XVII, realizada na “Escola Portuguesa do século XVIII”. Foi parte de uma grande encomenda litúrgica e devota para ornamentar as igrejas erigidas com a expansão missionária pelas Capitanias do Norte. Remete-se à tradição barroca e segue o modelo de representação da morte de São Francisco Xavier na praia de Goa. Ao aplicarmos o método biográfico no estudo da imagem, acompanhamos o trânsito da pintura entre sua provável origem em uma oficina confessional, seu papel ornamental e devocional em uma igreja periférica do Império Português, os circuitos de colecionadores e leilões de arte, e suas formas de recepção na cultura contemporânea.

ABSTRACT This is a study on painting Fr. Filipe Bourel’s Death (A Morte do Padre Filipe Bourel), an anonymous oil painting that alludes to an organized Jesuit mission among the Paiacu nation natives at the end of the 17th century, belonging to the “18th Century Portuguese School”. Possibly the painting was part of a great liturgical and devotional commission to ornament the churches erected during the Jesuit missionary expansion by the Northern Captaincies. It refers to the Baroque tradition and follows the model of representation of Saint Francis Xavier’s death on the beaches of Goa. By applying the biographical method in the image analysis, the text shows the transit of this painting from its probable origin in a confessional workshop, its ornamental and devotional role in a peripheral church of the Portuguese empire, and from there to the circuits of collectors and art auctions until their forms reception in contemporary culture.

Resumo Discute as epidemias no colapso demográfico de ameríndios no México e na América Andina após a chegada dos espanhóis. A partir das categorias de Ernst Mayr de causas distantes (ou evolutivas) e próximas (ou funcionais), argumenta-se que causas distantes, como causas genéticas, que conferiram resistência imunológica aos espanhóis, manifestaram-se em um cenário muito estratificado, provocando a destruição de incas e astecas. Interpretações recentes do projeto colonialista europeu buscam minimizar a importância das epidemias ou matizá-las com fatores sociais, econômicos e políticos, interpretados aqui como causas próximas. Defendemos que somente pela articulação dessas duas categorias é possível entender a importância das epidemias na conquista espanhola da América Latina.

Abstract The role of epidemics in the demographic collapse of the Amerindians in Mexico and Andean America after the arrival of the Spanish is discussed. Ernst Mayr’s categories of ultimate (or evolutionary) and proximal (or functional) causes are used to argue that ultimate causes, such as genetics, which gave the Spanish immunological resistance, were manifested in a very stratified setting, triggering the destruction of the Incas and Aztecs. Recent interpretations of colonization have played down the importance of epidemics or combined them with social, economic, and political factors, interpreted here as proximate causes. We understand that only by articulating these two categories can the importance of epidemics in the Spanish conquest of Latin America be understood.

Odontogenic tumors (OTs) are lesions that develop exclusively on maxillary bones, and form a heterogeneous group. They vary from hamartomatous lesions to benign and malign tumors. Although they are rarely observed in dentistry clinics, it is extremely important for the dentist to be aware of them. The aim of this study was to investigate the incidence of odontogenic tumors diagnosed in the population of Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil. Cases of odontogenic tumors were selected from the anatomopathological diagnostic services at Federal University of Santa Catarina from 1998 to 2011. Clinical data on these cases were collected from biopsy reports and patient files. Seventy-eight cases of odontogenic tumors were surveyed. Of these diagnoses, 51% were keratocystic odontogenic tumors (KCOTs); the remaining cases were mainly ameloblastomas and odontomas. The most frequently observed lesion in this retrospective study was KCOT (more than half of cases). Thus, this study shows that modifying the classification of the OTs altered the frequency of the lesions, possibly making KCOT the most common lesion observed in diagnostic services worldwide.