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Chapters: Bolivians of Indigenous Peoples Descent, Brazilians of Indigenous Peoples Descent, Canadians of Aboriginal Peoples Descent, Chileans of Indigenous Peoples Descent, People of Iroquois Descent, People of Native American Descent, Uruguayans of Indigenous Peoples Descent, Venezuelans of Indigenous Peoples Descent, Hugo Chávez, Gabriela Mistral, Angelina Jolie, David Archuleta, Marcelo Salas, Andrés de Santa Cruz, José Gervasio Artigas, Tadanobu Asano, Cândido Rondon, Patricia Velásquez, Vanessa Da Mata, Edinson Cavani, Coelho Neto, Marcheline Bertrand, Gilberto Freyre, Marina Silva, Juliana Paes, Brian Sinclair, Cunhambebe, Caroline Ribeiro, Carlos Sherman, Antônio Filipe Camarão, Gabriel Antonio Pereira, Ismael Nery, Araribóia, Helena Meireles, Chico César. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 154. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Angelina Jolie (born Angelina Jolie Voight; June 4, 1975) is an American actress. She has received an Academy Award, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and three Golden Globe Awards. Jolie promotes humanitarian causes, and is noted for her work with refugees as a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). She has been cited as one of the world's most attractive people, as well as the world's "most beautiful" woman, titles for which she has received substantial media attention. Though she made her screen debut as a child alongside her father Jon Voight in the 1982 film Lookin' to Get Out, Jolie's acting career began in earnest a decade later with the low-budget production Cyborg 2 (1993). Her first leading role in a major film was in Hackers (1995). She starred in the critically acclaimed biographical films George Wallace (1997) and Gia (1998), and won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=5792809 ... Read more

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Chapters: Cândido Rondon, Vanessa Da Mata, Coelho Neto, Gilberto Freyre, Marina Silva, Juliana Paes, Cunhambebe, Caroline Ribeiro, Antônio Filipe Camarão, Ismael Nery, Araribóia, Helena Meireles, Chico César. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 47. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Cândido Mariano da Silva Rondon, or Marechal Rondon (May 5, 1865-January 19, 1958) was a Brazilian military officer who is most famous for his exploration of Mato Grosso and the Western Amazon Basin, and his lifelong support of Brazilian indigenous populations. He was the first director of Brazil's Indian Protection Bureau (SPI/FUNAI) and responsible for the creation of the Xingu National Park. The Brazilian state of Rondônia is named after him. He was made Marshal, the highest military rank in Brazil. He was born on the 5th of May 1865 in Mimoso, a small village in the Mato Grosso state. His father was of Portuguese ancestry, and his mother was an Indian from the Bororo people. Both of his parents died when he was 9 and he was raised by his grandparents. After finishing high school at the age of 16, he taught elementary school for two years, and then joined the Brazilian army. On joining the military, he entered officer's school and graduated in 1888 as a second lieutenant. He was also involved with the Republican coup that overthrew Pedro II, the last Emperor of Brazil. In 1890, he was commissioned as an army engineer with the Telegraphic commission, and helped build the first telegraph line across the state of Mato Grosso. This telegraph line was finally finished in 1895, and afterwards, Rondon started construction on a road that lead from Rio de Janeiro (then capital of the republic) to Cuiabá, the capital of Mato Grosso. Until this roadway was complete, the only way between these two cities was by rive...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=1424347 ... Read more

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Chapters: Indigenous Peoples in Brazil, Immigration to Brazil, Portuguese Brazilian, Human Rights in Brazil, Landless Workers' Movement, Favela, Bolsa Família, Social Apartheid in Brazil, Mixed-Race Brazilian, Pardo, Slavery in Brazil, Social Issues in Brazil, Women in Brazil, Prostitution in Brazil, Public Holidays in Brazil, Fome Zero, Quilombo, Lithuanians in Brazil, Raposa Serra Do Sol, Brazilian Nobility, Domestic Violence in Brazil, Cingapura Project, Fundação Nacional Do Índio, Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics, Cortiço, Brazilian Historic and Geographic Institute. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 180. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Brazilian immigration (emigration to Brazil) refers to the movement of non-residents to Brazil. It should not be confused with the colonisation of the country by the Portuguese, or with the forcible bringing of people from Africa as slaves. Immigration has been a very important demographic factor in the composition, structure and history of human population in Brazil, with all its attending factors and consequences in culture, economy, education, racial issues, etc. Brazil has received one of the largest numbers of immigrants in the Western Hemisphere, along with the United States, Argentina and Canada. Maria Stella Ferreira Levy suggests the following periodisation of the process of immigration to Brazil: When Brazil was discovered as a new land in the New World by the Portuguese in 1500, its native population was composed of about 2.4 million Amerindians whose ancestors had been living there for the last 15,000 to 20,000 years. During the three decades afterwards, the country remained sparsely inhabited by Europeans. Among those few, mainly Portuguese, most were renegades, criminals banned from Portugal, shipwreck survivors, or...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=1475006 ... Read more

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This in-depth study examines a number of levels: indigenous knowledge
and healing systems and how these have incorporated elements from other cultures, the practical uses of local medicinal plants, and the relationship between the environment and the belief system and how this strengthens ethnic identity and supports economic and political strategies for survival. It also explores constrasts between the two groups and their interrelationship.

The significance of this study extends far beyond these groups alone, and the book will be of interest to students of ethnicity, folklore, ethnobotany and epistemology. It shows how a threatened minority group can effectively help to shape its future and how small groups of disenfranchized individuals can recover their ethnic identity and human dignity. ... Read more

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An innovative contribution to anthropology's interest in how identity is created and defined, this book uses two forms of ethnographic writing to explore the historical and social identity of a village on the banks of the Amazon River. He intersperses his analytical chapters with narrative sections that describe what the people do and how they do it. He thus moves beyond notions of identity that define themselves in collective, ethnic, or class terms by focusing on people's practical engagement with their environment. ... Read more

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From the late 16th to the late 18th century, Brazil was a Portugese colony and most of its art was religious. Zealous in their desire to convert the indigenous peoples, Jesuit exploited the sensory impact of painting and sculpture and the result was a type of art that was perfectly crafted, opulent, majestic, theatric ... Read more

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Amazon Frontier covers the 150 years when the first European scientists expolred the natural riches of Amazonia and became fascinated by its tribal peoples. Exciting and murderous encounters with new tribes continued throughout the nineteenth century, particularly when the Amazon's rubber monopoly made Manaus a frontier boom town. However, the Indian population, once so feared by the Europeans, began to decline and they became little more than objects of anthropological study or romantic literature. John Hemming ends his account in 1910 with the creation of Brazil's famous Indian Protection Service, a subject he resumes in Die If You Must ... Read more

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This is the first book in English devoted to the woodcuts that illustrate that Brazilian literatura de cordel.This "string literature," the inexpensive pamphlets often displayed on thin cords hung between posts, is the work of the virtuosos popular poet of the backlands of Northeast Brazil.The passionate narratives are by turn realistic and fantastic, comic and tragic, and reflect the realities and the dreams of the Brazilian poor.Published all over Brazil, these stark woodcuts have all the power, quickness, and wit of great popular art. ... Read more

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The first art historical study of Yoruba-descended, African Brazilian religious art based on an author's long-term participation in and observation of private and public rituals. ... Read more

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Great Book
amazing book.
i am so happy to have found a great book on candomble. it is hard to find information in candomble in english due to the language barrier.
i adored everything, it goes beyond candomble, the author even writes about other minor afro-brazilian traditions.
i hope that the author writes another book on this great subject.

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i was very happy with the quality of this product as well as with the timely manner in which it arrived.

Good book for Americans interested in Candomblé
Most of the books on Candomblé are written in Portuguese. This is an informative book for those wanting to understand the Candomblé tradition in Brazil. This book gives a lot of details and insight into the practices and procedures of the Candomblé Terreiros, which up until a few years ago has always been very private. There is a website that seeks to give an understanding this tradition to the American public: www.orixas.org. Big thanks to the author for writing this book. A `must have' book for the serious seeker. ... Read more

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The Wanano Indians of the northwest Amazon have a social system that differs from those of most tropical forest tribes. Neither stratified by wealth nor strictly egalitarian, Wanano society is "ranked" according to rigidly bound descent groups. In this pioneering ethnographic study, Janet M. Chernela decodes the structure of Wanano society. In Wanano culture, children can be "grandparents," while elders can be "grandchildren." This apparent contradiction springs from the fact that descent from ranked ancestors, rather than age or accumulated wealth, determines one's standing in Wanano society. But ranking's impulse is muted as senior clans, considered to be succulent (referring to both seniority and resource abundance), must be generous gift-givers. In this way, resources are distributed throughout the society. In two poignant chapters aptly entitled "Ordinary Dramas," Chernela shows that rank is a site of contest, resulting in exile, feuding, personal shame, and even death. Thus, Chernela's account is dynamic, placing rank in historic as well as personal context. As the deforestation of the Amazon continues, the Wanano and other indigenous peoples face growing threats of habitat destruction and eventual extinction. If these peoples are to be saved, they must first be known and valued. The Wanano Indians of the Brazilian Amazon is an important step in that direction. ... Read more

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Red Gold covers the history of the Brazilian Indians from 1500 to 1760, from the point of first contact through to their conquest by the Portuguese. The first contacts between Europeans and stone-age natives aroused mutual wonder and even admiration. The Indians appeared to the Portuguese as 'people good and of pure simplicity' and so the myth of the 'noble savage' was born. The whites seemed god-like beings whom the Indians venerated for the metal knives and axes which would help them wrest a living from the jungle. However, this uneasy friendship was not to last. The colonists revealed themselves as brutal, greed fuelled men who abused the hospitality of the Indians, using their women as concubines and their men as slaves. As if this wasn't enough. European disease and tribal vendettas - stirred by the colonists - depleted and depopulated the tribes. This terrifically comprehensive history of the impact of European settlement, details the subjugation of almost 2,500,000 people, and starts a historical trilogy of breathtaking ambition. ... Read more

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The book on Brazil, Uruguay and the natives
This book is simply the best and one of the only books on the Indians of Brazil and Uruguay and the conquest of them.This is an amazing wide ranging study from the missionaries to the slave trade to the many indian nations in Brazil.

Rivers of Blood
The story of how the Portuguese came to rule Brazil takes us to the "Pope Line" of Alexander VI, which split South America into two pieces.Most of it fell within the Spanish hemisphere, but, as fate would have it, the eastern slab (roughly, where Brazil is) went to Portugal.Given the absence of mineral deposits, the colonists resorted to exploiting human population.The tale of Brazil's conquest is a grim story of progressive accretion, acre by acre, tribe by tribe, with only the Jesuits serving to moderate the excesses of the colonists.Needless to say, the Jesuits were soon eliminated as a threat (this is depicted in the Morricone film "The Mission") and the Brazilian interior given over to plunder.Hemmings also takes us through the Dutch and French interludes, wherein Portugal stood to lose its dominions to these interlopers.There are few heroes on the European side in this epic, however there are a number of brave tribesmen who succeeded, always temporarily, in holding back the advance.

Much more than a formal history text.
A terrifically comprehensive history of the impact of European settlement on the native population of Brazil. Hemming has introduced a style and content that makes this as much a story book as a formal text book. Thebrutal and tragic consequences of the meeting of two extremely diverse cultures are brought to life in this book, with the greed and self-righteousness of the Portugese settlers set against the innocence and primitive nature of the indigenous 'Indians'. Anybody with an interest in the history of Brazil would find this a truly fascinating read.

Much more than a formal history text.
A terrifically comprehensive history of the impact of European settlement on the native population of Brazil. Hemming has introduced a style and content that makes this as much a story book as a formal text book. Thebrutal and tragic consequences of the meeting of two extremely diverse cultures are brought to life in this book, with the greed and self-righteousness of the Portugese settlers set against the innocence and primitive nature of the indigenous 'Indians'. Anybody with an interest in the history of Brazil would find this a truly fascinating read. ... Read more

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The term African people refers to people who live in Africa, or people who trace their ancestry to indigenous inhabitants of Africa. This includes members of the African diaspora resulting from the Atlantic Slave Trade such as Black British, Afro-Latin Americans, African Americans, Afro-Caribbeans, and Black Canadians. The term Black people is often used as a synonym for people of African ancestryparticularly in the Americas and Europe, although the two terms are not always considered synonymous ... Read more

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The Amazon is being colonised by a bunc of Alphapublishing books.This trend is best reversed.

Very poor value for money here.BIG price for Wikipedia downloads.If Kama exists, the three "editors" will be edited out of the earth's biosphere. Pleae do not fund evil. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from MACLAS Latin American Essays, published by Middle Atlantic Council of Latin American Studies on March 1, 2001. The length of the article is 6124 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Yoruban religious survival in Brazilian Candomble.
Author: Kasey Qynn Dolin
Publication: MACLAS Latin American Essays (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 1, 2001
Publisher: Middle Atlantic Council of Latin American Studies
Page: 69(14)

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Much more than a formal history text.
A terrifically comprehensive history of the impact of European settlement on the native population of Brazil. Hemming has introduced a style and content that makes this as much a story book as a formal text book. Thebrutal and tragic consequences of the meeting of two extremely diverse cultures are brought to life in this book, with the greed and self-righteousness of the Portugese settlers set against the innocence and primitive nature of the indigenous 'Indians'. Anybody with an interest in the history of Brazil would find this a truly fascinating read. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood: In History and Society, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 2984 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.Presents a depth of information on wide-ranging areas concerning business, including accounting, economics, finance, information systems law, management, and marketing. ... Read more