Guignard

Guignard
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 152
Release:
Genre: Brazil
ISBN: 9788586871818

The Art of Brazil

The Art of Brazil
Author: Carlos Alberto Cerqueira Lemos
Publisher: New York : Harper & Row
Total Pages: 332
Release: 1983
Genre: Art
ISBN:

Porous City

Porous City
Author: Bruno Carvalho
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2017-09-25
Genre: History
ISBN: 1786948591

A timely and original cultural history of Rio de Janeiro.

Afro-Latin America

Afro-Latin America
Author: George Reid Andrews
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 133
Release: 2016-03-08
Genre: History
ISBN: 0674545869

Two-thirds of Africans, both free and enslaved, who came to the Americas from 1500 to 1870 came to Spanish America and Brazil. Yet Afro-Latin Americans have been excluded from narratives of their hemisphere’s history. George Reid Andrews redresses this omission by making visible the lives and labors of black Latin Americans in the New World.

Entwined Lives

Entwined Lives
Author: Nancy Segal
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 586
Release: 2000-04-01
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1101153873

Twins are nature's living laboratories. Through them we are able to uncover new information concerning the genetic and environmental factors affecting who we are. Studies using identical and fraternal twins hold the keys to understanding our intellectual abilities, personality traits, social attitudes, and behavior. In Entwined Lives, Dr. Nancy Segal brings together cutting-edge information with illustrative case histories of twins and their families. In addition to the fascinating stories of identical twins reared apart and reunited as adults, Dr. Segal provides insights into the unusual language patterns of twins, how twin studies affect legal decisions, the role of fertility treatments in twin and "twinlike" conceptions, and more. This groundbreaking book explores the ways in which twins enhance our knowledge of human behavioral and physical development, while shedding new light on the nature/nurture debate and on the burgeoning field of evolutionary psychology.

Hearing Brazil

Hearing Brazil
Author: Jonathon Grasse
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Total Pages: 370
Release: 2022-04-19
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1496838319

Minas Gerais is a state in southeastern Brazil deeply connected to the nation’s slave past and home to many traditions related to the African diaspora. Addressing a wide range of traditions helping to define the region, ethnomusicologist Jonathon Grasse examines the complexity of Minas Gerais by exploring the intersections of its history, music, and culture. Instruments, genres, social functions, and historical accounts are woven together to form a tapestry revealing a cultural territory’s development. The deep pool of Brazilian scholarship referenced in the book, with original translations by the author, cites over two hundred Portuguese-language publications focusing on Minas Gerais. This research was augmented by fieldwork, observations, and interviews completed over a twenty-five-year period and includes original photographs, many taken by the author. Hearing Brazil: Music and Histories in Minas Gerais surveys the colonial past, the vast hinterland countryside, and the modern, twenty-first-century state capital of Belo Horizonte, the metropolitan region of which is today home to over six million. Diverse legacies are examined, including an Afro-Brazilian heritage, eighteenth- and nineteenth-century liturgical music of the region’s “Minas Baroque,” the instrument known as the viola, a musical profile of Belo Horizonte, and a study of the regionalist themes developed by the popular music collective the Clube da Esquina (Corner Club) led by Milton Nascimento with roots in the 1960s. Hearing Brazil champions the notion that Brazil’s unique role in the world is further illustrated by regionalist studies presenting details of musical culture.