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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... LIVE One of Brazil's first historians , Vicente do Salvador , criticized Brazilians for living " like crabs , stuck ... lives which are not in a meaningful way different from what they experienced in a rural setting . Much of the ...
... live within the boundaries of a city . Many of them are part of the " informal " economy , which means that they ... live on the hills and the rich live on the lowlands , a reversal of the usual pattern . Rio's slums are called favelas ...
... live songs and comedy , and a discussion about the benefits that television could provide . Regular evening broadcasts , from 6 to 11 o'clock , were established , and in January 1951 , Chateaubriand launched a second station , TV Tupi ...
Contents
Print Media and Broadcasting | 95 |
Cinema | 117 |
Literature | 131 |
Copyright | |
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