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. |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 33
... Latin America , especially Mexico . Since Mexico is the only country in the region with which we share a border , it is the country Americans are likely to know most about and the country from which we derive most of our stereotypes of ...
... Latin - derived forms as normal parts of the lexicon . Paradoxically , linguists consider Portuguese a “ conservative ” language because it retains such features as the initial “ f ” in words like ferro ( “ iron , ” from Latin ferrum ...
... Latin American Literature , vol . 1 , ed . Emir Rodríguez Monegal , asst . Thomas Colchie . New York : Alfred A. Knopf , 1977 . Mattelart , Michele and Armand Mattelart . The Carnival of Images : Brazilian Tele- vision Fiction ...
Contents
Print Media and Broadcasting | 95 |
Cinema | 117 |
Literature | 131 |
Copyright | |
2 other sections not shown