The Brazilians
By: Joseph A. Page.
Publisher: Addison-Wesley
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Reading, Mass
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 540
ISBN-13: 9780201409130
Subjects: National characteristics, Brazilian; Ethnology -- Brazil; Brazil -- Economic conditions -- 1985-; Brazil -- Social conditions -- 1985-; Brazil -- Religious life and customs
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 499-524) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introducing Brazil; title: Part one : Who are the Brazilians?; title: The Portuguese; title: The Africans; title: The Indians; title: The immigrants; title: Part two : The pyramid of power in Brazil.; title: The haves; title: Controlling Brazilian minds : a case study of the Globo Network; title: The have-nots; title: Lula and the Workers' Party : who speaks for the voiceless?; title: Part three : The curse of violence in Brazil.; title: The culture of brutality; title: Suffer the little children; title: Abusing nature's bounty; title: The Amazon Basin : a case study of violence; title: Part four : Spiritual Brazil.; title: Roman Catholicism; title: The Orixas; title: Evangelicals on the move; title: Part five : In search of what makes Brazilians Brazilian.; title: Soccer madness; title: The lesser gods : Brazil's heroes; title: The telenovela : a national obsession; title: In the land of Carnival; title: Whither Brazil?