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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... political ping - pong with other constituents . Although not really a champion of labor , he created a new Ministry of Labor out of part of the former Ministry of Agriculture and was at least partly responsible for the creation of labor ...
... political power , which , though still nascent , would contribute to making his only term as a popularly elected president a tightrope act easily the equal of his previous political acrobatics . Urban labor , always one of his mainstays ...
... political process came in the 1989 elections , in which an astonishing 22 parties nominated candidates , including a popular television star with no political experience . The slate included the loser in the 1985 election , the popular ...
Contents
Print Media and Broadcasting | 95 |
Cinema | 117 |
Literature | 131 |
Copyright | |
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