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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... foreign enterprises . One of the most important of these was the extraction of iron , which eventually grew into a native steel industry , allowing Brazil to produce such things as truck engines and eventually aircraft well before any ...
... foreign cul- tural influences but provided a mechanism for originality : digesting the for- eign , as the Tupi ... foreign elements in any way they saw fit , " putting foreign cultural influences in a blender " is CINEMA 123.
... Foreign Land , 1995 — Terra Estrangeira ) , and two superb films , Central Sta- tion ( 1998 - Central do Brasil ) and Behind the Sun ( 2001 — Broken April ) . His Midnight ( 1999 — O Primeiro Dia ) is a short , experimental film that ...
Contents
Print Media and Broadcasting | 95 |
Cinema | 117 |
Literature | 131 |
Copyright | |
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