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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... probably don't spend much time thinking about the rest of the continent , probably in part because those other countries seem so insignificant . In a less generous people this kind of attitude could easily turn into arrogance , but in ...
... probably the best novelist in the Americas in the nine- teenth century ; Lima Barreto , also a canonical writer ; the black Symbolist poet Cruz e Souza , and the mulatto sculptor Aleijadinho . The lack of institutionalized ...
... probably fair to say that the difference is even greater than the one between " received " British usage and ... probably the most important commercial language in the world , jumps from fourth place to second place if nonnatives are ...
Contents
Print Media and Broadcasting | 95 |
Cinema | 117 |
Literature | 131 |
Copyright | |
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