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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... Indian as material for heroic historical drama and fiction , which was exactly what happened . Al- though the Indian had also been subjected to servitude and was at this junc- ture not numerically even a very important part of Brazilian ...
... Indian maiden Iracema . Along with the problems of the mixed union , there are other taboos and transgressions , a protracted war between Indian tribes , and the eventual demise of the lovely Iracema . Romanticism is known , of course ...
... Indian masks are representations of spirits or deities , and all have ritual significance . In some of the larger villages as many as 50 masked figures might dance in a single ritual . In architecture , Brazilian Indians constructed ...
Contents
Print Media and Broadcasting | 95 |
Cinema | 117 |
Literature | 131 |
Copyright | |
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