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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... largest country in the world ( about 3.29 million square miles in area ) , the largest country in Latin America , and the most populous Roman Catholic country in the world . It contains the world's most voluminous river ( the Amazon ) ...
... largest hydroelectric project currently in operation ( Itaipu ) , the world's longest continuous box- and - plate girder bridge ( the Rio - Niterói bridge ) , and the largest automobile industry in the Third World . Its Rede Globo is ...
... largest stilt slum in the country . The two largest cities in the Center - West are Brasília and Goiânia . Al- though the idea for a new capital had existed since at least 1789 , Brasília was built only recently , during the ...
Contents
Print Media and Broadcasting | 95 |
Cinema | 117 |
Literature | 131 |
Copyright | |
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