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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... plays Pixote is now available in the United States in LAVA : Who Killed Pixote ? ( 1996— Quem matou Pixote ? ) by ... Play in the Fields of the Lord ( 1991— Brincando nos Campos do Senhor ) is also an international coproduction that ...
... plays were autos ( short religious plays ) in the medieval mold , and were es- sentially didactic works used as teaching tools in the conversion of Indians . Not until the nineteenth century did anything that might be taken as a ...
... plays has the kind of esthetic ambitions expected of great art . But in the twentieth century a vibrant and multi - faceted theatrical literature and nu- merous original and innovative theatrical groups emerged . Oswald de Andrade ...
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