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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... University Press , 1995 . Kirsch , John . Why Is This Country Dancing ? New York : Simon & Schuster , 1993 . Lemos , Carlos , José Roberto Teixeira Leite , and Pedro Manuel Gismonti . The Art of Brazil . New York : Harper & Row , 1983 ...
... University of New Mexico ) joined the faculty of the University of Kansas in Lawrence in the fall of 1967 , fresh from a Fulbright year in Brazil . Jon taught Portuguese , and occasionally Spanish , at Kansas until his premature death ...
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