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| brazil's national language: Lonely Planet Brazilian Portuguese Phrasebook and Dictionary 5 Marcia Monje de Castro, 2014 Complete with tips for pronunciation and grammar, two-way dictionary and snappy sentence builder. You'll also find communication tips and cultural information - Brazilliant! .Handy phrases for socialising. .Responsible travel talk. .Health and emergency section. .Useful phrases for finding accommodation. Coverage Includes: Introduction, Basics, Practical, Social, Food, Safe Travel, Dictionary and Sustainable Travel. |
| brazil's national language: Brazilian Sign Language Studies Ronice Müller de Quadros, 2020-08-10 This book brings together a collection of studies on Brazilian Sign Language (Libras). Research on Libras began in earnest 20 years ago, around the time that Libras was recognised as a national language of Brazil in 2002. Over the years, more and more deaf researchers have become sign language linguists, and the community of Libras scholars have documented this language and built robust resources for linguistic research. This book provides a selection of studies by these scholars, representing work in a variety of areas from phonology to creative literature. |
| brazil's national language: Brazilian Portuguese Juliana Grazini Dos Santos, Monica Hallberg, Marie-Pierre Mazéas, 2016 |
| brazil's national language: Language, Literacy, and Health Izabel Magalhães, Kênia Lara da Silva, 2021-12-06 Language, Literacy, and Health: Discourse in Brazil’s National Health System analyzes language, literacy, and health as social practices in Brazil’s national health system, the Unified Health System (SUS), with a particular focus on the Family Health Strategy program. The SUS was established in the 1990s, offering free consultations, health promotion activities, and home visits by a professional team to the Brazilian population. Using research conducted in two different Brazilian regions, the Northeast and the Southeast, Izabel Magalhães and Kênia Lara da Silva discuss language and literacy as discourse—a very important dimension of health practice—and different uses of texts, including multimodal texts. The research, analysis, and the authors’ ethnographic approach bring to light some issues with SUS practices, and the authors suggest improvements. This book contributes to the debate about language and literacy in health practices, in which patients are partly responsible for keeping well. |
| brazil's national language: Indigenous Languages in Brazil. A Country between Monolingualism and Plurilingualism Yasmin Barrachini-Haß, 2016-04-15 Seminar paper from the year 2012 in the subject Speech Science / Linguistics, grade: 1,0, University of Bremen, course: Sprachpolitik, Sprachenrechte, Sprachplanung, language: English, abstract: This paper mainly focuses on indigenous languages, indigenous laws and rights, as well as indigenous education. The first chapter deals with indigenous peoples in Brazil, their geopolitical situation, their languages and linguistic prejudices towards them. The second chapter focuses on how indigenous languages are promoted. This includes how indigenous school- and university programs have evolved in the last centuries and especially in the last decade and how didactic materials have also improved. Finally, a conclusion is drawn, followed-up by the list of sources and declaration about the authenticity of this term paper. Brazil is, generally speaking, a country of diversity. It is not only known to have the planet’s largest remaining rainforest and wildlife, but it is also known to be rich in culture. It must also be said that it has always been a migration country. Thus, in the last five centuries people from all over the world immigrated to Brazil and brought foreign rituals and traditions with them, which eventually also enriched the Brazilian culture. However, before becoming a Portuguese colony in 1500 Brazil was already inhabited by many indigenous peoples. The majority of them had been extinct through the colonization process, but even after that indigenous people had to struggle and fight for their lives. Sadly, this condition remains to be true nowadays. Although Portuguese is the official and most spoken language in Brazil, there are also about 215 other languages that are spoken in this country (Müller de Oliveira: 2009; p. 20). Most of those languages are spoken by indigenous peoples. Thus, Brazil can undoubtedly be considered to be multilingual. This vast linguistic variety, however, is neither promoted nor apprehended properly by the Brazilian government, although there are laws to protect it. Paradoxically, Brazil has always had a Monolingualism- oriented policy. Nevertheless, there are increasingly more parties, as for instance the NGO ‘Amazon Watch’ and ‘Survival’ as well as the Brazilian governmental protection agency ‘FUNAI’, which interest it is to protect the indigenous’ cultural diversity, including their languages. |
| brazil's national language: Native and National in Brazil Tracy Devine Guzmán, 2013 How do the lives of indigenous peoples relate to the romanticized role of Indians in Brazilian history, politics, and cultural production? Native and National in Brazil charts this enigmatic relationship from the sixteenth century to the present, focusing on the consolidation of the dominant national imaginary in the postindependence period and highlighting Native peoples' ongoing work to decolonize it. Engaging issues ranging from sovereignty, citizenship, and national security to the revolutionary potential of art, sustainable development, and the gendering of ethnic differences, Tracy Devine Guzman argues that the tensions between popular renderings of Indianness and lived indigenous experience are critical to the unfolding of Brazilian nationalism, on the one hand, and the growth of the Brazilian indigenous movement, on the other. Devine Guzmán suggests that the indigenous question now posed by Brazilian indigenous peoples themselves-how to be Native and national at the same time-can help us to rethink national belonging in accordance with the protection of human rights, the promotion of social justice, and the consolidation of democratic governance for indigenous and nonindigenous citizens alike. |
| brazil's national language: The Native Languages of South America Loretta O'Connor, Pieter Muysken, 2014-03-20 In South America indigenous languages are extremely diverse. There are over one hundred language families in this region alone. Contributors from around the world explore the history and structure of these languages, combining insights from archaeology and genetics with innovative linguistic analysis. The book aims to uncover regional patterns and potential deeper genealogical relations between the languages. Based on a large-scale database of features from sixty languages, the book analyses major language families such as Tupian and Arawakan, as well as the Quechua/Aymara complex in the Andes, the Isthmo-Colombian region and the Andean foothills. It explores the effects of historical change in different grammatical systems and fills gaps in the World Atlas of Language Structures (WALS) database, where South American languages are underrepresented. An important resource for students and researchers interested in linguistics, anthropology and language evolution. |
| brazil's national language: Language Learning and Literacy Information Resources Management Association, 2019-08-02 Teaching language learners has long presented challenges for teachers who are tasked with leading these students to a level of language comprehension comparable to that of native speakers. As the need for language learning increases, it is essential that educators devise more innovative and efficient learning strategies. Language Learning and Literacy: Breakthroughs in Research and Practice examines the trends, challenges, issues, and strategies of foreign language literacy and learning. The book also examines the relationship between language education and technology and the potential for curriculum enhancements through the use of mobile technologies, flipped instruction, and language-learning software. This two-volume publication is an ideal reference source for instructional designers, education administrators, educators, academicians, researchers, scholars, and graduate-level students interested in seeking current research on effective teaching strategies for teachers of language learners. |
| brazil's national language: Negotiating National Identity Jeff Lesser, 1999 A comparative study of immigration and ethnicity with an emphasis on the Chinese, Japanese, and Arabs who have contributed to Brazil's diverse mix. |
| brazil's national language: ¿Por Qué? 101 Questions About Spanish Judy Hochberg, 2016-10-20 ¿Por qué? 101 Questions about Spanish is for anyone who wants to understand how Spanish really works. Standard textbooks and grammars describe the what of Spanish - its vocabulary, grammar, spelling, and pronunciation - but ¿Por qué? explains the why. Judy Hochberg draws on linguistic principles, Hispanic culture, and language history to answer questions such as: Why are so many Spanish verbs irregular? - Why does Spanish have different ways to say you? - Why is h silent? - Why doesn't Spanish use apostrophes? - Why does Castilian Spanish have the th sound? Packed with information, guidance, and links to further research, ¿Por qué? is an accessible study guide that is suitable for Spanish students, instructors, native speakers, and the general reader. It is a valuable supplementary text for serious students of Spanish at all levels, from beginning to advanced. ¿Por qué? also covers topics usually left to specialized books, including the evolution of Spanish, how children and adults learn Spanish, and the status of languages that co-exist with Spanish, from Catalan to Spanish sign language to the indigenous languages of Latin America. |
| brazil's national language: Portuguese Milton M. Azevedo, 2005-01-13 Publisher Description |
| brazil's national language: Language Diversity in the USA Kim Potowski, 2010-08-05 What are the most widely spoken non-English languages in the USA? How did they reach the USA? Who speaks them, to whom, and for what purposes? What changes do these languages undergo as they come into contact with English? This book investigates the linguistic diversity of the USA by profiling the twelve most commonly used languages other than English. Each chapter paints a portrait of the history, current demographics, community characteristics, economic status, and language maintenance of each language group, and looks ahead to the future of each language. The book challenges myths about the 'official' language of the USA, explores the degree to which today's immigrants are learning English and assimilating into the mainstream, and discusses the relationship between linguistic diversity and national unity. Written in a coherent and structured style, Language Diversity in the USA is essential reading for advanced students and researchers in sociolinguistics, bilingualism, and education. |
| brazil's national language: The Languages of the World Kenneth Katzner, Kirk Miller, 2002-09-11 This third edition of Kenneth Katzner's best-selling guide to languages is essential reading for language enthusiasts everywhere. Written with the non-specialist in mind, its user-friendly style and layout, delightful original passages, and exotic scripts, will continue to fascinate the reader. This new edition has been thoroughly revised to include more languages, more countries, and up-to-date data on populations. Features include: *information on nearly 600 languages *individual descriptions of 200 languages, with sample passages and English translations *concise notes on where each language is spoken, its history, alphabet and pronunciation *coverage of every country in the world, its main language and speaker numbers *an introduction to language families |
| brazil's national language: The Mystery of Samba Hermano Vianna, 2000-11-09 Samba is Brazil's national rhythm, the foremost symbol of its culture and nationhood. To the outsider, samba and the famous pre-Lenten carnival of which it is the centerpiece seem to showcase the country's African heritage. Within Brazil, however, samba symbolizes the racial and cultural mixture that, since the 1930s, most Brazilians have come to believe defines their unique national identity. But how did Brazil become the Kingdom of Samba only a few decades after abolishing slavery in 1888? Typically, samba is represented as having changed spontaneously, mysteriously, from a repressed music of the marginal and impoverished to a national symbol cherished by all Brazilians. Here, however, Hermano Vianna shows that the nationalization of samba actually rested on a long history of relations between different social groups--poor and rich, weak and powerful--often working at cross-purposes to one another. A fascinating exploration of the invention of tradition, The Mystery of Samba is an excellent introduction to Brazil's ongoing conversation on race, popular culture, and national identity. |
| brazil's national language: Brazil in the Making Carmen Nava, Ludwig Lauerhass, 2006 This innovative volume traces Brazil's singular character, exploring both the remarkable richness and cohesion of the national culture and the contradictions and tensions that have developed over time. What shared experiences give its citizens their sense of being Brazilian? What memories bind them together? What metaphors and stereotypes of identity have emerged? Which groups are privileged over others in idealized representations of the nation? The contributors--a multidisciplinary group of U.S. and Brazilian scholars--offer a fresh look at questions that have been asked since the early nineteenth century and that continue to drive nationalist discourse today. Their chapters explore Brazilian identity through an innovative framework that brings in seldom-considered aspects of art, music, and visual images, offering a compelling analysis of how nationalism functions as a social, political, and cultural construction in Latin America. Contributions by: Cristina Antunes, Dain Borges, Val ria Costa e Silva, James Green, Efrain Kristal, Ludwig Lauerhass Jr., Cristina Magaldi, Elizabeth A. Marchant, Jos Mindlin, Carmen Nava, Jos Luis Passos, Robert Stam, and Val ria Torres |
| brazil's national language: A Concise History of Brazil Boris Fausto, Sergio Fausto, 2014-08-11 The second edition of A Concise History of Brazil features a new chapter that covers the critical time period from 1990 to the present, focusing on Brazil's increasing global economic importance as well as its continued democratic development. |
| brazil's national language: Brazil on the Rise Larry Rohter, 2012-02-28 A fabled country with a reputation for danger, romance and intrigue, Brazil has transformed itself in the past decade. This title, written by the go-to journalist on Brazil, intimately portrays a country of contradictions, a country of passion and above all a country of immense power. |
| brazil's national language: The Handbook of Portuguese Linguistics W. Leo Wetzels, Sergio Menuzzi, João Costa, 2020-01-09 The Handbook of Portuguese Linguistics presents a comprehensive overview of research within the Brazilian and European variants of the Portuguese language. It includes chapters focusing on the key areas of linguistic study, including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, linguistic change, language variation and contact, and acquisition. Essential reference work for scholars of Portuguese linguistics and Romance languages Chapters written by an international team of research specialists highlight both the consensus and the controversies within the various subfields of Portuguese linguistics Examines Portuguese linguistics in relation to syntax, phonology, morphology, semantics/pragmatics, acquisition, and sociolinguistics Written in an accessible overview style and designed for advanced students and current scholars in the field alike Essential reference work for scholars of Portuguese linguistics and Romance languages |
| brazil's national language: 1808: The Flight of the Emperor Laurentino Gomes, 2013-08-29 In a time of terror for Europe’s monarchs—imprisoned, exiled, executed—Napoleon’s army marched toward Lisbon. Cornered, Prince Regent João had to make the most fraught decision of his life. Protected by the British Navy, he fled to Brazil with his entire family, including his deranged mother, most of the nobility, and the entire state apparatus. Until then, no European monarch had ever set foot in the Americas. Thousands made the voyage, but it was no luxury cruise. It took two months in cramped, decrepit ships. Lice infested some of the vessels, and noble women had to shave their hair and grease their bald heads with antiseptic sulfur. Vermin infested the food, and bacteria contaminated the drinking water. Sickness ran rampant. After landing in Brazil, Prince João liberated the colony from a trade monopoly with Portugal. As explorers mapped the burgeoning nation’s distant regions, the prince authorized the construction of roads, the founding of schools, and the creation of factories, raising Brazil to kingdom status in 1815. Meanwhile, Portugal was suffering the effects of abandonment, war, and famine. Never had the country lost so many people in so little time. Finally, after Napoleon’s fall and over a decade of misery, the Portuguese demanded the return of their king. João sailed back in tears in 1821, and the last chapter of colonial Brazil drew to a close, setting the stage for the strong, independent nation that we know today, changing the New World forever. |
| brazil's national language: Hello, Hello Brazil Bryan McCann, 2004-05-04 “Hello, hello Brazil” was the standard greeting Brazilian radio announcers of the 1930s used to welcome their audience into an expanding cultural marketplace. New genres like samba and repackaged older ones like choro served as the currency in this marketplace, minted in the capital in Rio de Janeiro and circulated nationally by the burgeoning recording and broadcasting industries. Bryan McCann chronicles the flourishing of Brazilian popular music between the 1920s and the 1950s. Through analysis of the competing projects of composers, producers, bureaucrats, and fans, he shows that Brazilians alternately envisioned popular music as the foundation for a unified national culture and used it as a tool to probe racial and regional divisions. McCann explores the links between the growth of the culture industry, rapid industrialization, and the rise and fall of Getúlio Vargas’s Estado Novo dictatorship. He argues that these processes opened a window of opportunity for the creation of enduring cultural patterns and demonstrates that the understandings of popular music cemented in the mid–twentieth century continue to structure Brazilian cultural life in the early twenty-first. |
| brazil's national language: Brazilian National Cinema Lisa Shaw, Stephanie Dennison, 2014-05-01 Brazilian cinema is one of the most influential national cinemas in Latin America and this wide-ranging study traces the evolution of Brazilian film from the silent era to the present day, including detailed studies of more recent international box-office hits, such as Central Station (1998) and City of God (2002). Brazilian National Cinema gives due importance to traditionally overlooked aspects of Brazilian cinema, such as popular genres, ranging from musical comedies (the chanchada) to soft-core porn films (the pornochanchada) and horror films, and also provides a fresh approach to the internationally acclaimed avant-garde Cinema Novo of the 1960s. Lisa Shaw and Stephanie Dennison apply recent theories on stardom, particularly relating to issues of ethnicity, race and gender, to both well-known Brazilian performers, such as Carmen Miranda and Sonia Braga, and lesser known domestic icons, such as the Afro-Brazilian comic actor, Grande Otelo (Big Othello), and the uberblonde children’s TV and film star, and media mogul, Xuxa. This timely addition to the National Cinemas series provides a comprehensive overview of the relationship between Brazilian cinema and issues of national and cultural identity. |
| brazil's national language: National Geographic Traveler - Brazil Bill Hinchberger, Michael Sommers, 2014 The world is open for travel and people are looking for new ways to experience a destination. This title makes Brazil accessible to every traveller. It provides a game plan for visitors interested in taking in the best sites around the country, with a focus on active experiences that give travellers behind-the-scenes possibilities. |
| brazil's national language: Religious Conflict in Brazil Erika Helgen, 2020-06-23 The story of how Brazilian Catholics and Protestants confronted one of the greatest shocks to the Latin American religious system in its 500-year history This innovative study explores the transition in Brazil from a hegemonically Catholic society to a religiously pluralistic society. With sensitivity, Erika Helgen shows that the rise of religious pluralism was fraught with conflict and violence, as Catholic bishops, priests, and friars organized intense campaigns against Protestantism. These episodes of religious violence were not isolated outbursts of reactionary rage, but rather formed part of a longer process through which religious groups articulated their vision for Brazil’s national future. |
| brazil's national language: A History of African Linguistics H. Ekkehard Wolff, 2019-06-13 The first global history of African linguistics as an emerging autonomous academic discipline, covering Africa, the Americas, Asia, Australia, and Europe. |
| brazil's national language: Brazil Zilah Deckker, 2008 From the frenzied passion of Carnival to the immensity of the dark Amazon, Brazil is a country of mythic proportions. Encompassing half the continent, South America's giant has stretches of unexplored rain forest, islands with pristine tropical beaches and endless rivers Each book in the ongoing Countries of the World series depicts a major nation and its unique position in the world. The main chapters focus on geography, people and culture, history, government and economy, and nature: at a glance double spreads to present a maximum amount of information in a minimal amount of space, utilizing charts, tables, time lines, and other highly visual elements. Full-page maps highlight physical features, vegetation and ecosystems, history, population, and political organization. As a bonus, most photographs within each chapter are tied to a location on the main map for that chapter. Smaller maps zoom in on special topics, such as migration, rainfall, changing borders, resources, industry, and other important themes. The title features Sidebars that introduce intriguing people, places, and events. It contains a glossary to aid in comprehension of unfamiliar terms. It also features an extensive bibliography that lists books, National Geographic articles, and Web sites. It provides tips for report writers. |
| brazil's national language: Brazil in the World Sean W. Burges, 2017 This book explains why Brazil is taking an increasingly prominent international role, how it conducts and plans its regional and global interactions, and what the South American giant intends to do with its rising international influence. |
| brazil's national language: Multilingual Brazil Marilda C. Cavalcanti, Terezinha M. Maher, 2017-09-22 This book brings together cutting edge work by Brazilian researchers on multilingualism in Brazil for an English-speaking readership in one comprehensive volume. Divided into five sections, each with its own introduction, tying together the themes of the book, the volume charts a course for a new sociolinguistics of multilingualism, challenging long-held perceptions about a monolingual Brazil by exploring the different policies, language resources, ideologies and social identities that have emerged in the country’s contemporary multilingual landscape. The book elucidates the country’s linguistic history to demonstrate its evolution to its present state, a country shaped by political, economic, and cultural forces both locally and globally, and explores different facets of today’s multilingual Brazil, including youth on the margins and their cultural and linguistic practices; the educational challenges of socially marginalized groups; and minority groups’ efforts to strengthen languages of identity and belonging. In addition to assembling linguistic research done in Brazil previously little known to an English-speaking readership, the book incorporates theoretical frameworks from other disciplines to provide a comprehensive picture of the social, political, and cultural dynamics at play in multilingual Brazil. This volume is key reading for researchers in linguistic anthropology, sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, cultural studies, and Latin American studies. |
| brazil's national language: Race in Another America Edward E. Telles, 2006-09-25 This is the most comprehensive and up-to-date book on the increasingly important and controversial subject of race relations in Brazil. North American scholars of race relations frequently turn to Brazil for comparisons, since its history has many key similarities to that of the United States. Brazilians have commonly compared themselves with North Americans, and have traditionally argued that race relations in Brazil are far more harmonious because the country encourages race mixture rather than formal or informal segregation. More recently, however, scholars have challenged this national myth, seeking to show that race relations are characterized by exclusion, not inclusion, and that fair-skinned Brazilians continue to be privileged and hold a disproportionate share of wealth and power. In this sociological and demographic study, Edward Telles seeks to understand the reality of race in Brazil and how well it squares with these traditional and revisionist views of race relations. He shows that both schools have it partly right--that there is far more miscegenation in Brazil than in the United States--but that exclusion remains a serious problem. He blends his demographic analysis with ethnographic fieldwork, history, and political theory to try to understand the enigma of Brazilian race relations--how inclusiveness can coexist with exclusiveness. The book also seeks to understand some of the political pathologies of buying too readily into unexamined ideas about race relations. In the end, Telles contends, the traditional myth that Brazil had harmonious race relations compared with the United States encouraged the government to do almost nothing to address its shortcomings. |
| brazil's national language: Becoming Brazilians Marshall C. Eakin, 2017-07-25 This book traces the rise and decline of Gilberto Freyre's vision of racial and cultural mixture (mestiçagem - or race mixing) as the defining feature of Brazilian culture in the twentieth century. Eakin traces how mestiçagem moved from a conversation among a small group of intellectuals to become the dominant feature of Brazilian national identity, demonstrating how diverse Brazilians embraced mestiçagem, via popular music, film and television, literature, soccer, and protest movements. The Freyrean vision of the unity of Brazilians built on mestiçagem begins a gradual decline in the 1980s with the emergence of an identity politics stressing racial differences and multiculturalism. The book combines intellectual history, sociological and anthropological field work, political science, and cultural studies for a wide-ranging analysis of how Brazilians - across social classes - became Brazilians. |
| brazil's national language: Translation and Translations John Percival Postgate, 1922 |
| brazil's national language: Languages of the Amazon Aleksandra I︠U︡rʹevna Aĭkhenvalʹd, 2012-05-17 This guide and introduction to the extraordinary range of languages in Amazonia includes some of the most fascinating in the world and many of which are now teetering on the edge of extinction. |
| brazil's national language: Remaking Brazil Tatiana Signorelli Heise, 2012 This book explores conflicting conceptions of Brazilian national identity as they are expressed in contemporary Brazilian cinema, especially those revolving around the long-standing claim that Brazil is a racial democracy. -- Welsh Books Council |
| brazil's national language: Understanding Global Cultures Martin J. Gannon, Rajnandini Pillai, 2010 This is a significant book... for a multitude of audiences, including scholars, practitioners, students, expatriates, travelers, and those who are simply interested in culture... This book is also an ideal reference tool, since the metaphors are easy to remember yet rich in contextual value and are presented in a logical structure for quick consultation. Overall, this book is enormously appealing, genuinely useful, and a worthy addition to any collection. -Thunderbird International Business Review (2002) In Understanding Global Cultures, Fourth Edition, authors Martin J. Gannon and Rajnandini Pillai present the cultural metaphor as a method for understanding the cultural mindsets of individual nations, clusters of nations, and even continents. The fully updated Fourth Edition continues to emphasize that metaphors are guidelines to help outsiders quickly understand what members of a culture consider important. This new edition includes a new part structure, three completely new chapters, and major revisions to chapters on American football, Russian ballet, and the Israeli kibbutz. New and Continuing Features: Emphasizes clusters of national cultures and variations within each cluster, as well as both topic-oriented (authority-ranking cultures, market-pricing cultures, etc.) and cluster-focused descriptions Includes three new parts: India, Shiva, and Diversity; Scandinavian Egalitarian Cultures (Sweden, Denmark, and Finland); and Other Egalitarian Cultures (including Canada and Germany) Provides three completely new chapters: Finnish Sauna, Kaleidoscopic India and Diversity, and a final integrative summary chapter Integrates chapters through the frameworks of the GLOBE study, the Hofstede study, Hall, and Kluckholn and Strodbeck Highlights religious and ethnic diversity throughout Ancillaries Instructor Resources are available on a password-protected website at www.sagepub.com/gannon4instr. These include applications, discussion questions, model examinations,100 exercises, and suggested syllabi. Qualified instructors may contact Customer Care to receive access to the site. Understanding Global Cultures: Metaphorical Journeys Through 29 Nations, Clusters of Nations, Continents, and Diversity is appropriate for courses in International Business and Management, Strategic Management and Planning, and Cultural Studies. |
| brazil's national language: Dicionário Inglês-português Júlio Albino Ferreira, 1970 |
| brazil's national language: Brazil Neill Lochery, 2014-06-03 In 1939, Brazil seemed a world away from the chaos overtaking Europe. Yet despite its bucolic reputation as a distant land of palm trees and pristine beaches, Brazil’s natural resources and proximity to the United States made it strategically invaluable to both the Allies and the Axis alike. As acclaimed historian Neill Lochery reveals in The Fortunes of War, Brazil’s wily dictator Getúlio Dornelles Vargas keenly understood his country’s importance, and played both sides of the escalating global conflict off against each other, gaining trade concessions, weapons shipments, and immense political power in the process. Vargas ultimately sided with the Allies and sent troops to the European theater, but not before his dexterous geopolitical machinations had transformed Rio de Janeiro into one of South America’s most powerful cities and solidified Brazil’s place as a major regional superpower. A fast-paced tale of diplomatic intrigue, The Fortunes of War reveals how World War II transformed Brazil from a tropical backwater into a modern, global power. |
| brazil's national language: The Black Man in Brazilian Soccer Mario Filho, 2021-02-10 At turns lyrical, ironic, and sympathetic, Mario Filho's chronicle of the beautiful game is a classic of Brazilian sports writing. Filho (1908–1966)—a famous Brazilian journalist after whom Rio's Maracana stadium is officially named—tells the Brazilian soccer story as a boundary-busting one of race relations, popular culture, and national identity. Now in English for the first time, the book highlights national debates about the inclusion of African-descended people in the body politic and situates early black footballers as key creators of Brazilian culture. When first introduced to Brazil by British expatriots at the end of the nineteenth century, the game was reserved for elites, excluding poor, working-class, and black Brazilians. Filho, drawing on lively in-depth interviews with coaches, players, and fans, points to the 1920s and 1930s as watershed decades when the gates cracked open. The poor players and players of color entered the game despite virulent discrimination. By the mid-1960s, Brazil had established itself as a global soccer powerhouse, winning two World Cups with the help of star Afro-Brazilians such as Pele and Garrincha. As a story of sport and racism in the world's most popular sport, this book could not be more relevant today. |
| brazil's national language: Modern Brazil Herbert S. Klein, Francisco Vidal Luna, 2020-03-12 The first social history examining all aspects of Brazil's radical transition from a predominantly rural society to an urban one. |
| brazil's national language: Spanish for Teachers William E. Bull, 1965-05-15 |
| brazil's national language: Negras in Brazil Kia Caldwell, 2007-01-05 For most of the twentieth century, Brazil was widely regarded as a racial democracy-a country untainted by the scourge of racism and prejudice. In recent decades, however, this image has been severely critiqued, with a growing number of studies highlighting persistent and deep-seated patterns of racial discrimination and inequality. Yet, recent work on race and racism has rarely considered gender as part of its analysis. In Negras in Brazil, Kia Lilly Caldwell examines the life experiences of Afro-Brazilian women whose stories have until now been largely untold. This pathbreaking study analyzes the links between race and gender and broader processes of social, economic, and political exclusion. Drawing on ethnographic research with social movement organizations and thirty-five life history interviews, Caldwell explores the everyday struggles Afro-Brazilian women face in their efforts to achieve equal rights and full citizenship. She also shows how the black women's movement, which has emerged in recent decades, has sought to challenge racial and gender discrimination in Brazil. While proposing a broader view of citizenship that includes domains such as popular culture and the body, Negras in Brazil highlights the continuing relevance of identity politics for members of racially marginalized communities. Providing new insights into black women's social activism and a gendered perspective on Brazilian racial dynamics, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of Latin American Studies, African diaspora studies, women's studies, politics, and cultural anthropology. |
| brazil's national language: Welcoming the Undesirables Jeff Lesser, 1995-01-06 This book adds an important new dimension to the worldwide history of the Jewish refugees during the Holocaust.—Jonathan D. Sarna, Brandeis University Lesser's book explains the Latin American Jewish experience more than any other book I know.—Robert M. Levine, University of Miami |
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Official Language: Portuguese Gross Domestic Product (GDP): $1.8 trillion (2015 est.) ... to Brazil’s National Truth Commission, at least 434 people were killed or “disappeared” by the …
The Education System of Brazil: An Overview of History and
assessments performed above all by the National Institute for Educational Studies and Research (INEP), a Brazilian government agency. Recent devel-opments are then analyzed such as the …
Brazil’s national education system and how it was thought
A national education system is a live entity; it is the product of struggles and the forgotten difficulties of battles from a distant past. It contains some of the secret works of national life. By …
A m e nd m e nt s t hr ough 2 0 1 7 B ra zi l 's C ons t i t ut i on …
cons ti tuteproj ect. org P DF g e ne r a te d: 19 Oct 2023, 08:53 Bra zil 1 9 8 8 ( re v. 2 0 1 7 ) Pa g e 6 Tra ns la t e d by Ke it h S. Ros e nn Pr e a mb l e We t he re pre s e nt a t iv e s of t he Bra zilia …
Energy Systems of the Future in Brazil - GIZ
In 2020, the MME, EPE and Brazil’s National Grid Operator (ONS) published a pilot study on new mechanisms to integrate an increasing amount of intermittent renewable energy into the energy …
Immigration and Shifting Concepts of National Identity in …
National Identity in Brazil during the Vargas Era* ... always answered in the affirmative prior to 1930 by Brazil's intellectuals and policymak-ers.' As such, Brazil's elite classes saw the construction of …
Campaign Overview: Brazil
the Brazil’s campaign is a series of activities on the national mobilization day, including consultations and services across over 41,800 mobile vaccination spots. By contrast, the …
STRATEGIES TO INCREASE CANCER SCREENING IN THE …
Pratt-Chapman, M.L., Kamen, C.S., Meersman, S. Quinn, G.P., Schabath, M., Maingi, S., Merrill, J.K., Garrett-Mayer, E., Kaltenbaugh, M., Schenkel, C., Chang, S. (2022).
African Influences on the Music of Brazil - JSTOR
A glance at Brazil's racial cross section gives an indication of why this is true. The present population of the nation is estimated to be about eleven percent pure black and over twenty-six …
Policy Update: Amazon deforestation and Brazil’s forest code: …
The relative success of Brazil’s national ‘Plan to Prevent and Control Amazon Deforestation’ relied entirely on command-and-control measures, and ... cloaking it all in the language of sustainable …
Directory of National Plant Protection Organizations and …
Mr. Pavlovich Alexander Nikolayevich, Deputy Chief National Plant Quarantine Inspection Organization Language(s): English Ministry of Agriculture and Food Central State Inspection on …
Innovation Policies of Brazil
Brazil’s national innovation system is relatively young compared to similarly sized economies. Brazil’s gross domestic product is the seventh largest in the world, (GDP) behind the United …
English in Brazil: A Sociolinguistic Profile - Lesley University
nation and more helpful for cross-national comparisons. (p. 309). Extending Ferguson's definition of a sociolinguistic profile comes the framework ... language required for admittance into higher …
Brazil: TotalEnergies signs Production Sharing Contract for the …
Production Sharing Regime – 1st Cycle held by Brazil’s National Petroleum Agency (ANP) in December 2022. Agua Marinha is a 1,300 sq.km exploration block located in the pre-salt Campos …
BNCC VERSION 3: SIX ASPECTS FOR REVISION - British Council
it will have on Brazil’s educational system, our critical reading highlights six aspects that we consider essential for improving the English Language component included in Version 3, if every …
Report Name: Biofuels Annual - USDA Foreign Agricultural …
Brazil’s National Biofuels Policy, picked up momentum once Brazil’s B3 stock exchange started trading CBios in April 2020. CBio average prices in 2022 (January - August) ranged from R$50 to …
Bridging Gaps: The European Prevention Curriculum …
with Brazil’s national drug policy, which emphasizes integrated, person-centered care but is also receptive to environmental prevention strategies. The result is a stan - ... were held, focusing on …
Brazil’s growing relevance to peace and security in Africa
with Africa, and Brazil’s new national defence strategy, with its renewed focus on the South Atlantic, have made Africa one of the country’s top priorities abroad. Africa is also ... Portuguese as an …
THIRD NATIONAL COMMUNICATION OF BRAZIL TO THE …
Third National Communication of Brazil to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change – Volume I/ Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation. Brasília: ... Eletrobras – …
The Educational System of Brazil - Common Core Diva
the National Education Guidelines and Framework Law (Lei de Diretrizes e Bases da Educação) or LBD, was passed. This law required a common national basis for curriculum in primary and …
Chapter 2: Curriculum Reform in Brazil to Develop Skills for
May 3, 2016 · Brazil is currently implementing an ambitious national curricular reform. The pro-cess began in 2013 with an organized civil society movement that realized the importance of realizing …
CIPL’s Top Ten Recommendations for Regulating AI in Brazil
areas (see above), which makes it law-agnostic and applicable to the AI context. Brazil’s AI regime might establish the specific elements and expected outcomes of accountability or Brazil’s …
Connecting and relating in Brazil: implications of remote work
differences, Brazil’s national culture is an intermediate or borderland culture, where aspects of collectivism are combined with individualist characteristics (Hess and DaMatta 1995).
BRAZIL: POLICE KILLINGS, IMPUNITY AND ATTACKS ON …
Moreover, despite Brazil’s commitment during its previous review to continue the demarcation process of Indigenous lands, progress has been slow.4 In 2012, the authorities accepted several …
Toward Agricultural Resilience: Analyzing Brazil's National …
Aug 1, 2024 · Toward Agricultural Resilience: Analyzing Brazil's National Fertilizer Plan Daniella Lima da Costa Teodoro1 , Suyene Monteiro da Rocha2 , Luiz Paulo Figueredo Benicio2, * 1Teaching …
Brazil National Water Management Pact - oecd-opsi.org
launched by the National Water Agency, in co-operation with water managers at the state level; it proposes a co-operation strategy across government levels. The National Water Agency (ANA) …
Building Brazil’s National Action Plan: lessons learned and …
Brazil’s National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security (NAP) was launched on 8 March 2017 – International Women’s Day – in the midst of a major political crisis that affected the content of …
WASLI and WFD Guidelines Communication during natural …
Remedies for Persons with Disabilities Act 2007, Zambia’s Persons with Disabilities Act 1996 and Brazil’s Law 7853 of 1989. For a list of URLs, please see Appendix 1. ... interpreted into the …
2030 Brazil Roadmap - Climate Investment Funds
Brazil’s NDC includes increasing the share of sustainable biofuels in the energy mix to 18% by 2030, expanding biofuel consumption, increasing ethanol supply, and raising the share of advanced …
Towards a Black Feminist Model of Black Atlantic Liberation ...
activist-scholars during Brazil’s military dictatorship (1964–1985). Here, we see Nascimento focused and deliberate, speaking eloquently about quilombos as the only Black woman on a …
BRAZIL - Climate Transparency
National Adaptation Plan for Climate Change 2016 Assigned to the Executive Group on Climate Change. Adaptation readiness Brazil’s observed adaptation readiness is well below the G20 …
MEDICAL DIAGNOSTICS IN BRAZIL - FIND Dx
Brazil’s Unified Health System (SUS) is financed through public funds and the National Social Security Institute (Instituto Nacional do Seguro Social, INSS). It comprises both public and private …
Summary of the - gov
2 2 u µ ö ö Þ Ð µ § H MINISTRY OF SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATIONS | MCTI INTRODUCTION EBIA was established with the aim of guiding the actions of the Brazilian …
Language and Education in Latin America: An Overview
indigenous and fluent in an indigenous language as well as Spanish (Varese 1990: 348). In fact, many teachers are fluent in more than one indigenous language. DGEI's main objective is to …
INACIA: Integrating Large Language Models in Brazilian Audit …
ANDRE ASSUMPCAO, National Center for State Courts (NCSC), United States and Brazilian Association of Jurimetrics (ABJ), Brazil ... Large Language Models (LLMs) have emerged as a …
United Nations Children’s Fund - UNICEF
adolescents and youth, UNICEF and Brazil’s National Youth Secretariat (SNJ) bring this publication, which contains the concepts, principles, methodologies, legislation and ex- ... regulated by …
Linguistic Policies, Linguistic Planning, and Brazilian Sign …
Language. This law recognizes Brazilian Sign Language as one of the national languages used by the Deaf community in Brazil. The Libras Law represents a benchmark because it is the result of …
Report Name: Biofuels Annual - USDA Foreign Agricultural …
effective April 1, 2023. RenovaBio, Brazil’s National Biofuels Policy, picked up momentum once Brazil’s B3 stock exchange started trading CBios in April 2020. CBio average prices reached …
Constitution of the Federative Republic of Brazil 1988 - WIPO
15. locomotion within the national territory is free in time of peace, and any person may, under the terms of the law, enter it, remain therein or leave it with his assets; 16. all persons may hold …
Law Handbook - Escolhas
language, Federal Law No. 13,123/2015 (the Brazilian “Biodiversity Law”) and the legal instruments that were drafted to implement it, in particular Federal Decree No. 8,772/2016 and the …
Brazilian Foreign Policy in the Context of Global Climate …
Foreign Policy Analysis (2013) 9, 369-386 Brazilian Foreign Policy in the Context of Global Climate Norms Marco A. Vieira University ofBirmingham This article is an enquiry into Brazil's evolving …
Advances and challenges for gene therapies in Brazil - The …
Brazil’s regulatory framework has evolved to accommodate ATMPs,2 ensuring patient safety and efficacy. However, signifi-cant gaps remain, particularly in terms of pricing and reimbursement. …
BRAZIL - UNHCR
2023 UNHCR Brazil’s financial requirements 185 colleagues in 6 Offices • 1 Country Office in Brasilia, Federal District ... the rest of the Venezuelan population. Additionally, language barriers, …
Readers respond Correspondence - Nature
On 13 December, Brazil’s national petroleum agency sold ... language models in particular generates thousands of tonnes of carbon emissions (see H. Wang Nature 620, 731–732;
Sequential Inactivated Polio - JSTOR
sequential IPV-OPVvaccination, including 2 doses ofIPVat 2 and4 months ofage followedby 2 doses oftrivalent OPVat 6 ...
