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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... mean temperatures of 77 ° are high , but they rarely exceed 81 ° -which means that it is always hot but never reaches the 100 ° range as it does in the United States in the summer . The area's reputation for stifling heat is probably ...
... means that the continued importation of African slaves made the population largely black and mulatto for almost two centuries - in 1818 the population of Brazil was 60 % black . The waves of immigrants which came in the nineteenth and ...
... means " swampy " ) are built on stilts out into the Bay of All Saints and are the largest stilt slum in Brazil . Fortaleza , capital of the northeastern state of Ceará , has over 200 slums , housing perhaps a one - fourth of the ...
Contents
Print Media and Broadcasting | 95 |
Cinema | 117 |
Literature | 131 |
Copyright | |
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