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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... kind of activism is new and even frightening to many Brazilian Cath- olics , to whom Catholicism is a cultural presence but not a doctrine . More typical of this kind of religion are those who go to festivals with Catholic regalia ...
... kind of culture which would be likely to produce great works of literature . Strangely , this rather barbaric situation altered the character of Brazilian literature but did not preclude its existence . There are some curious ...
... kind of art . Aside from ceramics and tools , Brazilian Indians produced a great variety of basketry , and many made beautiful woven fabrics , usually dyed with ex- tracts from native plants . They made mats , sieves , hammocks , and ...
Contents
Print Media and Broadcasting | 95 |
Cinema | 117 |
Literature | 131 |
Copyright | |
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