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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... principal export commodity . As a means of securing the rest of the colony for Portugal , King John III then decided to implement the capitania ( captaincy ) system the Portuguese had used on the Atlantic islands . As a system purported ...
... principal political opponents were the Communists on the left and the Integralists on the right , and that through most of his regime Vargas either did a balancing act between these poles or used one opposing group to thwart the other ...
... principal artistic manifestation of Brazil's first century as a colony was architecture . Brazil was still an untamed outpost , and the principal activities of its inhabitants were defense against foreign intruders and the conversion of ...
Contents
Print Media and Broadcasting | 95 |
Cinema | 117 |
Literature | 131 |
Copyright | |
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