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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... less so . In a country with so many monumental things , both natural and man - made , any comparisons with its immediate neighbors make the neighbors look pretty puny . Indeed , several of Brazil's neighbors are very small countries and ...
... less and less economically viable , the Bra- zilian government embarked on a program to encourage immigration . Al- though Brazil was considered a less than ideal destination because of the notion that the tropics were an enervating ...
... less expected result of the episode was that since none of the young king's men actually saw him die in battle , a folk belief soon arose that Sebastião would one day return to save his country when it was in peril , a notion that ...
Contents
Print Media and Broadcasting | 95 |
Cinema | 117 |
Literature | 131 |
Copyright | |
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