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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... followed by Estado de São Paulo and O Globo . They , together with Jornal do Brasil , are the newspapers that have the greatest impact nationally , although there are many others which are very influential at a regional level , such as ...
... followed by millions of lis- teners . Until the end of the 1950s , when programs of recorded music became dominant , variety shows before a live audience were often those that achieved the highest ratings . The most famous example was ...
... followed before European contact . Since there were a great many cultures in Brazil there is great variety from group to group , but in no case was a social organization more complex than that of a tribe , so there are also similarities ...
Contents
Print Media and Broadcasting | 95 |
Cinema | 117 |
Literature | 131 |
Copyright | |
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