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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... never had the kind of institutionalized racism that existed in the United States - Brazil has never had separate facilities for different races , and there has never been a race riot in Brazil . A law passed in 1951 and a clause of the ...
... never miss a chance . I drink water from any river . -Riobaldo , narrator of João Guimarães Rosa's The Devil to Pay in the Backlands , p . 10 ROMAN CATHOLICISM BRAZIL HAS THE world's largest Roman Catholic population and ranks as the ...
... never said before or something which until the poem existed was impossible to say . Symbolists are fond of archaic and even invented words and view literary language as essentially enigmatic and imprecise . Amazingly enough , in a ...
Contents
Print Media and Broadcasting | 95 |
Cinema | 117 |
Literature | 131 |
Copyright | |
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