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The Brazilians

Author: Joseph A Page
Publisher: Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley, ©1995.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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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  Read more...
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Page, Joseph A.
Brazilians.
Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley, c1995
(OCoLC)624266690
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Joseph A Page
ISBN: 0201409135 9780201409130
OCLC Number: 31754430
Description: xix, 540 p. : map ; 25 cm.
Contents: Who are the Brazilians? --
The Portuguese --
The Africans --
The Indians --
The immigrants --
The pyramid of power in Brazil --
The haves --
Controlling Brazillian minds --
The have-nots --
Lula and the workers' party --
The curse of violence in Brazil --
The culture of brutality --
Suffer the little children --
Abusing nature's bounty --
The Amazon Basin --
Spiritual Brazil --
Roman Catholicism --
The Orixas --
Evangelicals on the move --
In search of what makes Brazilians Brazilian --
Soccer madness --
The lesser gods --
The telenovela --
In the Land of Carnival --
Whither Brazil.
Responsibility: Joseph A. Page.
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Abstract:

"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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