Culture and Customs of BrazilBloomsbury Academic, 30. juuni 2003 - 195 pages Race, religion, language, culture, and national character are full of contradictions. Brazil, the largest country in South America, embodies so much paradox that it defies neat description. This book will help students and general readers dispel stereotypes of Brazil and begin to understand what country's bigness means in terms of its land, people, history, society, and cultural expressions. |
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Jon S. Vincent. Almost anyone who has spent time in Brazil comes away with admiration and affection for the Brazilians . But to feel affection for the Brazilian people does not make it any easier to write about the country . Brazil is a ...
... Brazil . One reason that the transfer of the monarchy to the colony had such impact was that part of Portuguese colonial policy had been to keep Brazil quite literally in a state of servility during the colonial period . Brazil was ...
... Brazilian Jews have followed the national tendency toward syncretism , especially with Afro - Brazilian religions . Today Brazil has both Sephardic and Ashkenazi synagogues and has the second- largest Jewish population in South America ...
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Print Media and Broadcasting | 95 |
Cinema | 117 |
Literature | 131 |
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