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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... NORTHEAST The Northeast comprises nine states - Maranhão , Piauí , Ceará , Rio Grande do Norte , Paraíba , Pernambuco , Alagoas , Sergipe , and Bahia , with a total area about four times the size of California or two and a half times ...
... Northeast amounts to about 18 % of the area of Brazil and holds a little over 28 % of its population . It was the first area exploited by the Por- tuguese in the colonial period , and thus the techniques used in agriculture and the ...
... Northeast has three cities of over a million population - Fortaleza , Recife , and Salvador . Fortaleza was founded as a fortress to counter the French presence in the Northeast . The fort was destroyed by Indians and rebuilt by the ...
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