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born 1940 Portugal

Boaventura de Sousa Santos (born 15 November 1940) is a Portuguese sociologist.

Portugal
Sociologists

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Do the Indians have a soul? was the question. When Pope Paul III answered affirmatively in his bull Sublimis deus of 1537, he did so by conceiving of the indigenous people’s soul as an empty receptacle, an anima nullius, very much like the terra nullius.

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