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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... seems slightly out of focus . Brazilians can be racially at once black and white . They speak a European language that is so influenced by African , Indian , and other languages that it is no longer altogether intelligible to its ...
... seems to vary in doctrine along class lines . Middle - class and upper - class spir- itualists in Brazil are more interested in extrasensory perception , while mem- bers of lower classes tend to base their practices on the study of ...
... seem a perfectly logical manifestation of the kind of free - wheeling spirit of the culture . In addition ... seems to many Brazilians to offer few answers to more immediate concerns . A spiritualist can request a consultation ...
Contents
Print Media and Broadcasting | 95 |
Cinema | 117 |
Literature | 131 |
Copyright | |
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