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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... sugar , carnauba , and textiles , including the beautiful hammocks for which Ceará is noted . Part of its rapid growth can be attributed to waves of migration from the interior , which in turn creates unemployment problems . Recife ...
... sugar production , and sixth among sugar consumers . Brazil ranks sixth among countries with the most workers , fourth in terms of consuming alter- native power , and ninth among electric consuming countries . Of the countries with the ...
... sugar in the Madeiras as early as the 1420s , were among the few Europeans who had learned the technology for the raising and processing of sugar cane , and they found much of the Brazilian coast ideal for this crop , which would soon ...
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