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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... notable characteristic of colonial Brazil . Perhaps the two most important legacies of the period for the modern state would be that fondness for bureaucracy and the notable degree of racial mixture in the population , including ...
... notable . Installed by the military in 1930 and deposed by them in 1945 , he returned in 1950 to win a decisive victory in the popular election and thus to become president of Brazil in no less than his fourth incarnation . We will ...
... notable writers of the period to obsess , in verse , about the unattainable Ro- mantic love object , a theme which eventually became a cliché for Romantic poets . Although the poets of this " ultraromantic " school produced works which ...
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Print Media and Broadcasting | 95 |
Cinema | 117 |
Literature | 131 |
Copyright | |
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