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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... existence , but which has produced some of the best poetry and prose in the hemisphere . Brazilians are sometimes almost stifled by tradition but persist in being free - wheeling when the bu- reaucracy or the social structure have ...
... existence of colonies of runaway slaves ( quilombos ) in the colonial period , slave rebellions in the nineteenth century , and various forms of racial protest in the twentieth , especially in the 1920s and 1930s . A corollary is the ...
... existence ( the film opens with the family on the road fleeing from drought ) to a slightly less desperate one when rains come bringing relief . The family secures a precarious existence on a ranch as sharecroppers . They are exploited ...
Contents
Print Media and Broadcasting | 95 |
Cinema | 117 |
Literature | 131 |
Copyright | |
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