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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... century with the arrival of large numbers of immigrants , notably from Germany , and with the Germans came a new industry , beer production . Consistent with the country's fond- ness for the gigantic , it is today the home of two of the ...
... century . It is only in the latter half of the twentieth century that film became regarded as an artistic medium and was given serious attention by intellectuals and academe . Today " movies " are the stuff of the classroom and their ...
... century were there stone buildings , and many of these were constructed in Portugal and brought piece by piece to Brazil , a kind of build - by - numbers system , and one which indicates the purely European char- acter of Brazilian ...
Contents
Print Media and Broadcasting | 95 |
Cinema | 117 |
Literature | 131 |
Copyright | |
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