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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... problems of Brazil , notably the worsening distribution of wealth , and the agrarian problem , about which his administration had almost no visible pol- icy . Some of the other problems that Brasília provided a smokescreen for were the ...
... problems , but also problems which when attacked directly produced immediate casualties . Qua- dros also dissipated a lot of energy enacting trivial laws , such as one banning the wearing of bikinis and another outlawing the lança ...
... problem as his immediate predecessor - the recalcitrance of Congress . This problem was exacerbated by the complete ... problems with the economy , now plagued by hyperinflation and debt . His principal political base was still ...
Contents
Print Media and Broadcasting | 95 |
Cinema | 117 |
Literature | 131 |
Copyright | |
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