Paradise In Brazil

Author : Joaquim Nabuco
Publisher : Schiffer Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-17
Category : Photography
ISBN : 0764342444

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Paradise in Brazil by Joaquim Nabuco Pdf

Head back to paradise with another tantalizing collection of images from Brazilian photographer Joaquim Nabuco. In more than 150 color and black and white images, the stunning women of Brazil grace equally beautiful tropical landscapes, including locations with mountains, jungles, beaches, and historical sites. There are even photographs that couple models with Brazil's indigenous wildlife like jaguars and macaws. By eliciting rich and radiant responses from these "Braziliangels," Nabuco is able to introduce the diverse characteristics of women from different regions of Brazil. From the mysterious beauties of the south to the spicy women of the north, this collection makes it very clear why Brazil is known as the home of supermodels. Quotes from Brazilian artists and poets about the beauty of their nation's fairer sex confirm this. But Nabuco's models come from all walks of life, some are actresses, TV personalities, journalists, biologists, and fashion designers, and all celebrate the paradise that is Brazil.

Author : Christen A Smith
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780252098093

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Afro-Paradise by Christen A Smith Pdf

Tourists exult in Bahia, Brazil as a tropical paradise infused with the black population's one-of-a-kind vitality. But the alluring images of smiling black faces and dancing black bodies masks an ugly reality of anti-black authoritarian violence. Christen A. Smith argues that the dialectic of glorified representations of black bodies and subsequent state repression reinforces Brazil's racially hierarchal society. Interpreting the violence as both institutional and performative, Smith follows a grassroots movement and social protest theater troupe in their campaigns against racial violence. As Smith reveals, economies of black pain and suffering form the backdrop for the staged, scripted, and choreographed afro-paradise that dazzles visitors. The work of grassroots organizers exposes this relationship, exploding illusions and asking unwelcome questions about the impact of state violence performed against the still-marginalized mass of Afro-Brazilians.

Author : Steven F. Butterman
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781538150894

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Queering and Querying the Paradise of Paradox by Steven F. Butterman Pdf

This book provides readers with a study of the characteristics that make life unique for sexual minorities in Brazil while also viewing Brazil in relation to global LGBT sociopolitical movements. It critically assesses the complex relationship(s) between the visual arts and political activism, carefully analyzing artistic, cinematic, and photographic representations of LGBTQ identities. Brazil provides a useful case to example, with the cultivation of ambiguity in contemporary (re)constructions of queer life. In this book, the author conducts the first comprehensive discourse analysis of the dynamics and features of the largest LGBT Pride Parade in the world. This problematizes and analyzes the relationship between burgeoning critical socio-political movements and institutions and the language and new media discourses used to configure and conceptualize them. The aim of this project is to create a theoretical scholarly framework promoting linkages between political activism and academic scholarship and by using discourse analysis, the intricacies of terminology Brazilian sexual minorities adopt and adapt, illustrating the development of LGBTQ identities through performative language use.

Author : Rebecca Parker Brienen
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789053569474

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Visions of Savage Paradise by Rebecca Parker Brienen Pdf

Visions of Savage Paradise is the first major book-length study of seventeenth-century Dutch artist Albert Eckhout to be published in nearly seventy years. Eckhout, who was court painter to the colonial governor of Dutch Brazil, created life-size paintings of Amerindians, Africans, and Brazilians of mixed race in support of the governor’s project to document the people and natural history of the colony. In this study, Rebecca Parker Brienen provides a detailed analysis of Eckhout’s works, framing them with discussions of both their colonial context and contemporary artistic practices in the Dutch republic.

Author : Conrad Phillip Kottak
Publisher : Waveland Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781478636519

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Assault on Paradise by Conrad Phillip Kottak Pdf

By the highest standards, Assault on Paradise ranks among the best and most complete modern ethnographic accounts ever written. In a rich narrative style, it chronicles the rapid social and economic change in Arembepe, a once-isolated coastal fishing village in Brazil where the author first conducted anthropological fieldwork more than fifty years ago. With emphasis on the impact of globalization, technology, and mass media, the current edition extends stories of people and events as well as internal and external changes. Readers quickly feel a part of the evolving community of Arembepe and the author’s close friends and informants. As one reviewer put it, “The people and personalities come through in a very human and often amusing way. This isn’t ethnography with the people taken out.” The well-structured, jargon-free coverage makes it ideal for use in introductory anthropology courses.

Author : Peter M. Beattie
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822375890

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Punishment in Paradise by Peter M. Beattie Pdf

Throughout the nineteenth century the idyllic island of Fernando de Noronha, which lies two hundred miles off Brazil's northeastern coast, was home to Brazil's largest forced labor penal colony. In Punishment in Paradise Peter M. Beattie uses Noronha as a case study to understand nineteenth-century Brazil's varied social and cultural values, especially in relation to justice, class, color, civil condition, human rights and labor. As Brazil’s slave population declined after 1850, the use of colonial-era disciplinary practices at Noronha—such as flogging and forced labor—stoked anxieties about human rights and Brazil’s international image. Beattie contends that the treatment of slaves, convicts, and other social categories subject to coercive labor extraction were interconnected and that reforms that benefitted one of these categories made them harder to deny to others. In detailing Noronha's history and the end of slavery as part of an international expansion of human rights, Beattie places Brazil firmly in the purview of Atlantic history.

Author : Conrad Phillip Kottak
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Religion
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173005571557

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Assault on Paradise by Conrad Phillip Kottak Pdf

Author : A.J. Lees
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781912559220

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Brazil That Never Was by A.J. Lees Pdf

A famed British neurologist embarks on an expedition in Brazil to follow the trail of Percy Fawcett, an occult-obsessed explorer who went missing in the Amazon rainforest and was the subject of the 2016 film The Lost City of Z. As a boy growing up near Liverpool in the 1950s, Andrew Lees would visit the docks with his father to watch the ships from Brazil unload their exotic cargo of coffee, cotton bales, molasses, and cocoa. One day, his father gave him a dog-eared book called Exploration Fawcett. The book told the true story of Lieutenant Colonel Percy Fawcett, a British explorer who in 1925 had gone in search of a lost city in the Amazon and never returned. The riveting story of Fawcett's encounters with deadly animals and hostile tribes, his mission to discover an Atlantean civilization, and the many who lost their own lives when they went in search of him inspired the young Lees to believe that there were still earthly places where one could "fall off the edge." Years later, after becoming a successful neurologist, Lees set off in search of the mysterious figure of Fawcett. What he found exceeded his wildest imaginings. With access to the cache of "Secret Papers," Lees discovered that Fawcett's quest was far stranger than searching for a lost city. There was a "greater mission," one that involved the occult and a belief in a community of evolved beings living in a hidden parallel plane in the Mato Grosso. Lees traveled to Manaus in Fawcett's footsteps. After a time-bending psychedelic experience in the forest, he understood that his yearning for the imaginary Brazil of his boyhood, like Fawcett's search for an earthly paradise, was a nostalgia for what never was. Part travelogue, part memoir, Lees paints a portrait of an elusive Brazil, and of a flawed explorer whose doomed mission ruined lives.

Author : Larry Rohter
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0230111777

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Brazil on the Rise by Larry Rohter Pdf

In this hugely praised narrative, New York Times reporter Larry Rohter takes the reader on a lively trip through Brazil's history, culture, and booming economy. Going beyond the popular stereotypes of samba, supermodels, and soccer, he shows us a stunning and varied landscape--from breathtaking tropical beaches to the lush and dangerous Amazon rainforest--and how a complex and vibrant people defy definition. He charts Brazil's amazing jump from a debtor nation to one of the world's fastest growing economies, unravels the myth of Brazil's sexually charged culture, and portrays in vivid color the underbelly of impoverished favelas. With Brazil leading the charge of the Latin American decade, this critically acclaimed history is the authoritative guide to understanding its meteoric rise.

Author : Jules Roger Sauer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Brazil Paradise of Gemstones by Jules Roger Sauer Pdf

Author : Jules Roger Sauer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0804814090

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Brazil by Jules Roger Sauer Pdf

Author : David J. Hellwig
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : 0877228922

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African-American Reflections on Brazil's Racial Paradise by David J. Hellwig Pdf

At the turn of the twentieth century, the popular image of Brazil was that of a tropical utopia for people of color, and it was looked upon as a beacon of hope by African Americans. Reports of this racial paradise were affirmed by notable black observers until the middle of this century, when the myth began to be challenged by North American blacks whose attitudes were influenced by the civil rights movement and burgeoning black militancy. The debate continued and the myth of the racial paradise was eventually rejected as black Americans began to see the contradictions of Brazilian society as well as the dangers for people of color. David Hellwig has assembled numerous observations of race relations in Brazil from the first decade of the century through the 1980s. Originally published in newspapers and magazines, the selected commentaries are written by a wide range of African-American scholars, journalists, and educators, and are addressed to a general audience. Author note:David Hellwigis Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at St. Cloud State University in Minnesota.

Author : Guy Walmisley-Dresser
Publisher : London : Lutterworth Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Black people
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173018280965

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Brazilian Paradise by Guy Walmisley-Dresser Pdf

Author : Conrad Phillip Kottak
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Companies
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Social Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105008564002

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Assault on Paradise by Conrad Phillip Kottak Pdf

This book is designed for use as a supplementary text in cultural and anthropology courses. The book chronicles the rapid social and economic change in Arembepe, a Brazilian coastal fishing village, which the author has visited repeatedly from 1962 to the present (1991). The new edition brings the account up-to-date by describing and analyzing the past ten years of life in Arembepe.

Author : Laura Zanotti
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816533541

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Radical Territories in the Brazilian Amazon by Laura Zanotti Pdf

Radical Territories in the Brazilian Amazon sheds light on the creative and groundbreaking efforts Kayapó peoples deploy to protect their lands and livelihoods in Brazil. Laura Zanotti shows how Kayapó communities are using diverse pathways to make a sustainable future for their peoples and lands. The author advances anthropological approaches to understanding how indigenous groups cultivate self-determination strategies in conflict-ridden landscapes.