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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... Minas Gerais , and São Paulo . Only the interior of Espírito Santo and the northern part of Minas Gerais remain in a state of underdevelopment comparable to other parts of the country . The northern boundary of this region coincides ...
... Minas Gerais and completed in 1897. It functioned almost exclusively as a political and ad- ministrative center until 1930 , when the government of Getúlio Vargas launched Brazil's industrial revolution . Today Minas Gerais is home to ...
... Minas Gerais . The result was the same as it has been in other parts of the world — a massive influx of population , skyrocketing prices for foodstuffs , wild frontier towns , thievery and murder , and , in this case , elaborate schemes ...
Contents
Print Media and Broadcasting | 95 |
Cinema | 117 |
Literature | 131 |
Copyright | |
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