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An edition of The Brazilians (1995)

The Brazilians

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"Introduction to Brazil by a law professor who has been an engaged visitor since the 1960s. Themes of race, political power, violence, environment, religious diversity, and popular culture are made accessible through biographical profiles. Balances exuberance and indignation better than most recent introductions, but at a length that may exhaust the general reader. See Levine's work (item #bi 00006099#) or Eakin's (item #bi 00006100#) for more succinct introductory studies"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

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Addison-Wesley
Language
English
Pages
540

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Cover of: Brasil
Brasil: [el gigante vecino]
1996, Emecé
in Spanish - 1a ed.
Cover of: Brazilians
Brazilians
1996, Hachette Books, Addison Wesley Publishing Company
in English
Cover of: The Brazilians
The Brazilians
1995, Addison-Wesley
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Cover of: The Brazilians
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Table of Contents

Introducing Brazil
Part one : Who are the Brazilians?
The Portuguese
The Africans
The Indians
The immigrants
Part two : The pyramid of power in Brazil.
The haves
Controlling Brazilian minds : a case study of the Globo Network
The have-nots
Lula and the Workers' Party : who speaks for the voiceless?
Part three : The curse of violence in Brazil.
The culture of brutality
Suffer the little children
Abusing nature's bounty
The Amazon Basin : a case study of violence
Part four : Spiritual Brazil.
Roman Catholicism
The Orixas
Evangelicals on the move
Part five : In search of what makes Brazilians Brazilian.
Soccer madness
The lesser gods : Brazil's heroes
The telenovela : a national obsession
In the land of Carnival
Whither Brazil?

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 499-524) and index.

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Reading, Mass

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
305.8/00981
Library of Congress
F2510 .P34 1995, F2510.P34 1995

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Pagination
xix, 540 p.
Number of pages
540
Dimensions
25 x x centimeters

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL1119514M
Internet Archive
brazilians00pagej
ISBN 10
0201409135
ISBN 13
9780201409130
LCCN
94045812
OCLC/WorldCat
31754430
Library Thing
256309
Goodreads
2659822

Work Description

The distinctive features of Brazilianness emerge from human factors, the singular interplay between Brazilians and their physical environment, and the magic that permeates both land and people. These are the aspects of Brazil that have long seduced and inspired foreign observers. - Introduction.

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