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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... region of origin . Regionalism has always been an important factor in Brazilian history , and even today certain assumptions are almost automatically made by one Bra- zilian about another because of where he or she is from . It is not ...
... region is dominated by the central plateau , which ranges in alti- tude from about 650 feet to around 3,000 feet . The northern portion is part of the Amazon Basin and has a climate corresponding to that region , and the southwest ...
... region coincides almost precisely with a normal temperature line of 75 ° and the southern with a line corresponding to 65 ° . Except for a narrow coastal band running south and west of Rio de Janeiro , where annual rainfall is 80 to 100 ...
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Print Media and Broadcasting | 95 |
Cinema | 117 |
Literature | 131 |
Copyright | |
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