{"product_id":"the-brazil-reader-9780822322900","title":"The Brazil Reader","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBordering all but two of South America’s other nations and by far Latin America’s largest country, Brazil differs linguistically, historically, and culturally from Spanish America. Its indigenous peoples share the country with descendants of Portuguese conquerors and the Africans they imported to work as slaves, along with more recent immigrants from southern Europe, Japan, the Middle East, and elsewhere. Capturing the scope of this country’s rich diversity and distinction as no other book has done—with more than a hundred entries from a wealth of perspectives—\u003ci\u003eThe Brazil Reader\u003c\/i\u003e offers a fascinating guide to Brazilian life, culture, and history. \u003cp\u003eComplementing traditional views with fresh ones, \u003ci\u003eThe Brazil Reader’s\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003ehistorical selections range from early colonization to the present day, with sections on imperial and republican Brazil, the days of slavery, the Vargas years, and the more recent return to democracy. They inc\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A stellar collection of texts on Brazilian history and contemporary life. No ordinary reader, this volume goes below the surface to introduce an American audience to Brazil’s complexities and diversity.” - \u003ci\u003eForeign Affairs\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Duke University Press has just brought out . . . the closest thing to a voyage around ‘the great green elbow’ that one of its novelists called his rich and varied country. The book shimmers with every type of essay, historiography, and literary tidbit.” - \u003ci\u003eRain City Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Whether ingested in short sips or long draughts, \u003ci\u003eThe Brazil Reader\u003c\/i\u003e has an accumulative weight, breadth, and durability. . . . [I]t’s a book that offers an intelligent and up-to-date survey of a vital and vibrant country. It’s hard to imagine how we were able to get along without it.” - Bondo Wyszpolski, \u003ci\u003eBrazzil\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Brazil Reader\u003c\/i\u003e is simply indispensable. . . .” - Julio César Pino,\u003ci\u003e Hispanic American Historical Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Reader\u003c\/i\u003e cannot fail to impress. . . . The specialist, the activist, the artist and the anonymous all find a space in \u003ci\u003eThe Brazil Reader\u003c\/i\u003e, creating what the editors describe as a ‘balance of voices.’ In summary, for the well-heeled scholar or the curious undergraduate \u003ci\u003eThe Brazil Reader\u003c\/i\u003e will present possibilities, challenges and thought-provoking reading.” - Jane-Marie Collins, \u003ci\u003eBulletin of Hispanic Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“What gives \u003ci\u003eThe Brazil Reader\u003c\/i\u003e its special cachet is freshness, sensitivity, and empathy in its diversity of perspectives on twentieth-century Brazil, from the top down, from the bottom up, and from somewhere in the middle.”—Stanley J. Stein, Princeton University\u003cbr\u003e“A worthy successor to the pioneering \u003ci\u003ePeru Reader\u003c\/i\u003e, this volume provides a comprehensive guide to Brazil’s history and culture from the Portuguese colonial past to the postmodern present. Defty crossing disciplines and integrating elite and popular realms, \u003ci\u003eThe Brazil Reader\u003c\/i\u003e is certain to please both the serious student and the general reader.”—Gil Joseph, Yale University\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Reader\u003c\/i\u003e cannot fail to impress. . . . The specialist, the activist, the artist and the anonymous all find a space in \u003ci\u003eThe Brazil Reader\u003c\/i\u003e, creating what the editors describe as a ‘balance of voices.’ In summary, for the well-heeled scholar or the curious undergraduate \u003ci\u003eThe Brazil Reader\u003c\/i\u003e will present possibilities, challenges and thought-provoking reading.” -- Jane-Marie Collins * Bulletin of Hispanic Studies *\u003cbr\u003e“A stellar collection of texts on Brazilian history and contemporary life. No ordinary reader, this volume goes below the surface to introduce an American audience to Brazil’s complexities and diversity.” * Foreign Affairs *\u003cbr\u003e“Duke University Press has just brought out . . . the closest thing to a voyage around ‘the great green elbow’ that one of its novelists called his rich and varied country. The book shimmers with every type of essay, historiography, and literary tidbit.” * Rain City Review *\u003cbr\u003e“Whether ingested in short sips or long draughts, \u003ci\u003eThe Brazil Reader\u003c\/i\u003e has an accumulative weight, breadth, and durability. . . . [I]t’s a book that offers an intelligent and up-to-date survey of a vital and vibrant country. It’s hard to imagine how we were able to get along without it.” -- Bondo Wyszpolski * Brazzil *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments        xi\u003cbr\u003e A Note on Style        xiii\u003cbr\u003e Introduction        1\u003cbr\u003e I. Origins, Conquest, and Colonial Rule        \u003cbr\u003e The Origin of Fire \/ Cayapo Legend        16\u003cbr\u003e Noble Savages \/ John Hemming        20\u003cbr\u003e A Description of the Tupinamba \/ Anonymous        25\u003cbr\u003e The First Wave \/ Warren Dean        33\u003cbr\u003e Letter to Governor Tome de Sousa \/ Manoel da Nobrega        37\u003cbr\u003e From the River of Jenero \/ Francisco Suares        41\u003cbr\u003e The Sins of Maranhao \/ Antonio Vieira        43\u003cbr\u003e Minas Uprising of 1720 \/ Anonymous        45\u003cbr\u003e Smuggling in the Diamond District \/ George Gardner        52\u003cbr\u003e Decree Elevating Brazil to a Kingdom \/ Joao VI        56\u003cbr\u003e II. Imperial and Republican Brazil        \u003cbr\u003e Declaration of Brazilian Independence, 1822 \/ Pedro I        63\u003cbr\u003e The Baron of Parnaiba \/ George Gardner        65\u003cbr\u003e Uprising in Maranhao, 1839-1840 \/ Domingos Jose Goncalves de Magalhaes        69\u003cbr\u003e A Paraiba Plantation, 1850-1860 \/ Stanley J. Stein        76\u003cbr\u003e The Paraguayan War Victory Parade \/ Peter M. Beattie        87\u003cbr\u003e A Vanishing Way of Life \/ Gilberto Freyre        91\u003cbr\u003e A Mirror of Progress \/ Dain Borges        93\u003cbr\u003e Drought and the Image of the Northeast \/ Gerald M. Greenfield        100\u003cbr\u003e Dom Pedro the Magnanimous \/ Mary Wilhelmine Williams        104\u003cbr\u003e Solemn Inaugural Session of December 24, 1900 \/ Congress of Engineering and Industry        107\u003cbr\u003e Intellectuals at Play \/ Olavo Bilac Colllection        109\u003cbr\u003e City of Mist \/ Manoel Sousa Pinto        110\u003cbr\u003e The Civilist Campaign \/ J. R. Lobao        113\u003cbr\u003e Gaucho Leaders, 1923 \/ Photograph        115\u003cbr\u003e Factory Rules, 1924 \/ Abramo Eberle Metalworks Management        116\u003cbr\u003e III. Slavery and Its Aftermath        \u003cbr\u003e The War against Palmares \/ Anonymous        125\u003cbr\u003e Slave Life at Morro Velho Mine \/ Sir Richard Francis Burton        131\u003cbr\u003e Scenes from the Slave Trade \/ Logbook Entries; Joao Dunshee de Abrantes        135\u003cbr\u003e Cruelty to Slaves \/ Thomas Ewbank        138\u003cbr\u003e Slavery and Society \/ Joaquim Nabuco        143\u003cbr\u003e Abolition Decree, 1888 \/ Princess Isabel and Rodrigo Augusto da Silva        145\u003cbr\u003e Laws Regulating Beggars in Minas Gerais, 1900 \/ Liegislature of Minas Gerais        146\u003cbr\u003e IV. The Vargas Era        \u003cbr\u003e The Social Question \/ Platform of the Liberal Alliance, 1930        156\u003cbr\u003e Manifesto, May 1930 \/ Luis Carlos Prestes        158\u003cbr\u003e Heroes of the Revolution \/ Composite Postcard Photograph        160\u003cbr\u003e The \"Gold for Sao Paulo\" Building, 1932 \/ Cristina Mehrtens        162\u003cbr\u003e Where They Talk about Rosa Luxemburg \/ Patricia Galvao        166\u003cbr\u003e Two Versions of Factory Life \/ Photographers Unknown        172\u003cbr\u003e Seized Correspondence from Communists, 1935-1945 \/ Dossier 20, Police Archives        176\u003cbr\u003e The Paulista Synagogue \/ Gustavo Barroso        182\u003cbr\u003e Why the Estado Novo? \/ Oliveira Vianna        184\u003cbr\u003e New Year's Address, 1938 \/ Getulio Vargas        186\u003cbr\u003e Rural Life \/ Photographers Unknown        190\u003cbr\u003e A New Survey of Brazilian Life \/ Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics        195\u003cbr\u003e General George C. Marshall's Mission to Brazil \/ Katherine Tupper Marshall        197\u003cbr\u003e Comments on the Estado Novo \/ Bailey W. Diffie        200\u003cbr\u003e Educational Reform after Twenty Years \/ Anisio S. Teixeira        204\u003cbr\u003e Ordinary People: Five Lives Affected by Vargas-Era Reforms \/ Apolonio de Carvalho, Geraldo Valdelirios Novais, Frederico Heller, Maurilio Thomas Ferreira, Joana de Masi Zero        206\u003cbr\u003e Vargas's Suicide Letter, 1954 \/ Getulio Vargas        222\u003cbr\u003e V. Seeking Democracy and Equity        \u003cbr\u003e Rehearsal for the Coup \/ Araken Tavora        231\u003cbr\u003e The Military Regime \/ Antonio Pedro Tota        235\u003cbr\u003e Excerpts from the 1967 Brazilian Constitution        238\u003cbr\u003e Tropicalism and Brazilian Popular Music under Military Rule \/ Christopher Dunn        241\u003cbr\u003e Literature under the Dictatorship \/ Elizabeth Ginway        248\u003cbr\u003e Pele Speaks \/ Edson Arantes Nascimento da Silva        254\u003cbr\u003e The Maximum Norm of the Exercise of Liberty \/ Grupo da Educacao Moral e Civica        258\u003cbr\u003e Families of Fishermen Confront the Sharks \/ Paulo Lima        260\u003cbr\u003e The Reality of the Brazilian Countryside \/ Landless Movement (MST)        264\u003cbr\u003e The \"Greatest Administrative Scandal\" \/ Seth Garfield        268\u003cbr\u003e Life on an Occupied Ship \/ Marcal Joao Scarante        274\u003cbr\u003e A Letter from Brazil \/ Juliano Spyer        277\u003cbr\u003e Inaugural Address \/ Fernando Henrique Cardoso        280\u003cbr\u003e Fernando Henrique Cardoso: Theory and Practice \/ Ted G. Goertzel        289\u003cbr\u003e Is Brazil Hopelessly Corrupt? \/ Roberto DaMatta        295\u003cbr\u003e VI. Women's Lives        \u003cbr\u003e Aunt Zeze's Tears \/ Emilia Moncorva Bandeira de Mello        302\u003cbr\u003e Tarsila and the 1920s \/ Carol Damian and Cristina Mehrtens        308\u003cbr\u003e The Integral Woman \/ Provincia de Guanabara        317\u003cbr\u003e The Children Always Had Milk \/ Maria Puerta Ferreira        319\u003cbr\u003e Women of the Forest \/ Yolanda and Robert F. Murphy        323\u003cbr\u003e My Life \/ Maria das Dores Gomes Batista        327\u003cbr\u003e A Healer's Story \/ Maria Geralda Ferreira        331\u003cbr\u003e Sonia, a Middle-Class Woman \/ Alison Raphael        334\u003cbr\u003e Family Life in Recife \/ Fanny Mitchell        337\u003cbr\u003e Xuxa and the Televisual Imaginary \/ Amelia Simpson        343\u003cbr\u003e Dreams of Uneducated Women \/ Jose Carlos Sebe Bom Meihy        348\u003cbr\u003e VII. Race and Ethnic Relations        \u003cbr\u003e A Letter from Brazil, 1918 \/ Jose Clarana        354\u003cbr\u003e Growing Up Black in Minas Gerais \/ Carolina Maria de Jesus        359\u003cbr\u003e Exotic Peoples \/ Indian Protection Agency        365\u003cbr\u003e Brazil: Study in Black, Brown, and Beige \/ Leslie B. Rout Jr.        367\u003cbr\u003e Immigrant Ethnicity in Brazil \/ Jeffrey Lesser        374\u003cbr\u003e The Myth of Racial Democracy \/ Abdias do Nascimento        379\u003cbr\u003e The National Day against Racism \/ Revista MNU        382\u003cbr\u003e The Church Tries to Combat Prejudice \/ Bernardete Toneto        384\u003cbr\u003e What Color Are You? \/ Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics        386\u003cbr\u003e Mixed Blood \/ Jefferson M. Fish        391\u003cbr\u003e VIII. Realities        \u003cbr\u003e The Animal Game \/ Clayton S. Cooper        398\u003cbr\u003e How Brazil Works \/ Robert M. Levine        402\u003cbr\u003e Iansa Is Not Santa Barbara \/ Ile Axe Opo Afonja        408\u003cbr\u003e Upward Mobility Is Possible \/ Alcides Nazario Guerreiro Bruto        411\u003cbr\u003e Crab and Yoghurt \/ Tobias Hecht        415\u003cbr\u003e Voices from the Pavement \/ Claudia Milito and Helio R. S. Silva        420\u003cbr\u003e Pixote's Fate \/ Robert M. Levine        423\u003cbr\u003e A Letter to President Cardoso \/ Caius Brandao        430\u003cbr\u003e The History of the Huni Kui People \/ Sia Kaxinawa        432\u003cbr\u003e Urban Indians \/ Juliano Spyer        436\u003cbr\u003e Mayor Orders Billboard Shacks Destroyed \/ Juliana Raposo        441\u003cbr\u003e Cultural Imperialism at Its Most Fashionable \/ Roger M. Allen        447\u003cbr\u003e The Gay and Lesbian Movement in Brazil \/ James N. Green        454\u003cbr\u003e Liberation Theology's Rise and Fall \/ Robin Nagle        462\u003cbr\u003e IX. Saudades        \u003cbr\u003e Bananas Is My Business \/ Helena Solberg        471\u003cbr\u003e The Invention of Tradition on Brazilian Radio \/ Bryan McCann        474\u003cbr\u003e Bahia Music Story \/ Bill Hinchberger        483\u003cbr\u003e O Axe de Zumbi \/ Paulo Lima and Bernadete Toneto        487\u003cbr\u003e At Carnival \/ Pedro Ribeiro        490\u003cbr\u003e Two Poets Sing the New World \/ Jessica Callaway        491\u003cbr\u003e Two Essays on Sports \/ Janet Lever and Jose Carlos Sebe Bom Methy        497\u003cbr\u003e Suggestions for Further Reading        505\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgment of Copyrights        511\u003cbr\u003e Index        519\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406022582615,"sku":"9780822322900","price":23.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822322900.jpg?v=1730494275","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-brazil-reader-9780822322900","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}