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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... movement to be a monarchist plot , since it refused to recognize the authority of the Republic . The governor of Bahia sent a police expedition to disband the movement , but the armed peasants , now numbering in the thousands , defeated ...
... movement and clearly disillusioned with the rigid power structure of the military . Their quixotic stand at Copacabana Fort in Rio made no lasting change in either military or civilian affairs , but the affair did point to deep ...
... movements , including but not limited to Italian Futur- ism , Cubism , Surrealism , and Dadaism . Brazil was unique in Latin America in that its Modernism can conveniently be seen as a movement which began at a specific point in time ...
Contents
Print Media and Broadcasting | 95 |
Cinema | 117 |
Literature | 131 |
Copyright | |
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