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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... 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 America whose roots were not in socialism but in anarchism , another point which was probably lost on the elites at the time . The third was an apparently apolitical event called the " Semana de Arte Moderna " ( Modern Art Week ) ...
... Latin American Literature , vol . 1 , ed . Emir Rodríguez Monegal , asst ... America . Boston : Little , Brown and Company , 1967 . Nowell , Charles E. A ... Latin American Television : A Global View . Oxford : Oxford University Press ...
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Print Media and Broadcasting | 95 |
Cinema | 117 |
Literature | 131 |
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