Brazilian Journal

Brazilian Journal
Author: P. K. Page
Publisher: The Porcupine's Quill
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2014-05-14
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1123187738

‘How could I have imagined so surrealist and seductive a world? One does not like the heat, yet its constancy, its all-surroundingness, is as fascinating as the smell of musk. Every moment is slow, as if under warm greenish water....’ In 1957, Page moved to Brazil with her husband, the Canadian ambassador. The hot, lush landscape was utterly immersive -- and for the next three years Page recorded her life in an intimate, vibrant, startlingly funny journal. Between her at times theatric responsibilities as the wife of an ambassador, and her futile attempts to organize the ambassador’s palatial home and staff, Page found the time to write in exquisite prose of her responses to the wildlife, the people and the colours of Brazil, in the end illuminating more of her own emotional and artistic journey than of the country itself. Accompanied by several of the illustrations Page created while on her travels, this is a fascinating, beautiful account of life in a magically unfamiliar place. Brazilian Journal is the second addition to a series of volumes to be published over the next ten years as a complement to an online hypermedia edition of the Collected Works of P.K. Page. The online edition is intended for scholarly research, while this new edition offers a beautiful text to be enjoyed by those who love and wonder at the talent of one of Canada’s greatest poets.

Brazilian Journal

Brazilian Journal
Author: Patricia Kathleen Page
Publisher: Key Porter Books
Total Pages: 308
Release: 1987
Genre: Art
ISBN:

In 1957, P.K. Page travelled to Brazil as the wife of Canada's ambassador, Arthur Irwin. Her impressions and adventures are recounted in this diary, from the tropic lushness to the ponderous and mystifying official duties.

Challenges to Tackling Antimicrobial Resistance

Challenges to Tackling Antimicrobial Resistance
Author: Michael Anderson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2020-04-23
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 1108799450

An accessible overview of the challenges in tackling AMR, and the economic and policy responses of the 'One Health' approach. It will appeal to policy-makers seeking to strengthen national and local polices tackling AMR, as well as students and academics who want an overview of the latest scientific evidence regarding effective AMR policies.

The Brazil Reader

The Brazil Reader
Author: James N. Green
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 484
Release: 2018-12-06
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 0822371790

From the first encounters between the Portuguese and indigenous peoples in 1500 to the current political turmoil, the history of Brazil is much more complex and dynamic than the usual representations of it as the home of Carnival, soccer, the Amazon, and samba would suggest. This extensively revised and expanded second edition of the best-selling Brazil Reader dives deep into the past and present of a country marked by its geographical vastness and cultural, ethnic, and environmental diversity. Containing over one hundred selections—many of which appear in English for the first time and which range from sermons by Jesuit missionaries and poetry to political speeches and biographical portraits of famous public figures, intellectuals, and artists—this collection presents the lived experience of Brazilians from all social and economic classes, racial backgrounds, genders, and political perspectives over the past half millennium. Whether outlining the legacy of slavery, the roles of women in Brazilian public life, or the importance of political and social movements, The Brazil Reader provides an unparalleled look at Brazil’s history, culture, and politics.

Religion and Brazilian Democracy

Religion and Brazilian Democracy
Author: Amy Erica Smith
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 223
Release: 2019-03-28
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1108482112

Evangelical and Catholic groups are transforming Brazilian politics. This book asks why, and what the consequences are for democracy.

Licentious Liberty in a Brazilian Gold-Mining Region

Licentious Liberty in a Brazilian Gold-Mining Region
Author: Kathleen J. Higgins
Publisher: Penn State Press
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2010-11-01
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9780271042558

Focusing attention on the changing status, autonomy, and influence of nonwhite women, the author argues, is one of the most effective ways of understanding the economic, demographic, and cultural evolution of the slave society as a whole.

Imagining the Mulatta

Imagining the Mulatta
Author: Jasmine Mitchell
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 408
Release: 2020-05-25
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0252052161

Brazil markets itself as a racially mixed utopia. The United States prefers the term melting pot. Both nations have long used the image of the mulatta to push skewed cultural narratives. Highlighting the prevalence of mixed race women of African and European descent, the two countries claim to have perfected racial representation—all the while ignoring the racialization, hypersexualization, and white supremacy that the mulatta narrative creates. Jasmine Mitchell investigates the development and exploitation of the mulatta figure in Brazilian and U.S. popular culture. Drawing on a wide range of case studies, she analyzes policy debates and reveals the use of mixed-Black female celebrities as subjects of racial and gendered discussions. Mitchell also unveils the ways the media moralizes about the mulatta figure and uses her as an example of an ”acceptable” version of blackness that at once dreams of erasing undesirable blackness while maintaining the qualities that serve as outlets for interracial desire.

Brazilian Psychosocial Histories of Psychoanalysis

Brazilian Psychosocial Histories of Psychoanalysis
Author: Belinda Mandelbaum
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2021-08-12
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 3030785092

This edited volume provides a critical history of psychoanalysis in Brazil. Written mainly by Brazilian historians and practitioners of psychoanalysis, the chapters address some central questions about psychoanalysis’ social role. How did psychoanalysis develop and flourish in a society in which modernisation was accompanied by inequality, authoritarianism and violence? How did psychoanalysis survive in Brazil alongside censorship and repression? Through a variety of lenses, the contributors demonstrate how psychoanalysis in Brazil presented itself as progressive and transformative and maintained this self-image even as it developed institutional structures that reproduce the authoritarianism of the wider society. This novel work offers rich conceptual and practical insights for academic researchers and practitioners of psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy, and addresses methodological questions of concern to academics working across the social sciences. Crucially, it also outlines a distinctive vision of psychoanalysis seen through a Brazilian lens, which will be of interest to readers seeking to confront the Eurocentric and North American bias of much psychoanalytic debate.

Making Brazil Work

Making Brazil Work
Author: M. Melo
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 341
Release: 2013-08-20
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1137310847

This book offers the first conceptually rigorous analysis of the political and institutional underpinnings of Brazil's recent rise. Using Brazil as a case study in multiparty presidentialism, the authors argue that Brazil's success stems from the combination of a constitutionally strong president and a robust system of checks and balances.

Brazil in Transition

Brazil in Transition
Author: Lee J. Alston
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2016-05-24
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1400880947

Brazil is the world's sixth-largest economy, and for the first three-quarters of the twentieth century was one of the fastest-growing countries in the world. While the country underwent two decades of unrelenting decline from 1975 to 1994, the economy has rebounded dramatically. How did this nation become an emerging power? Brazil in Transition looks at the factors behind why this particular country has successfully progressed up the economic development ladder. The authors examine the roles of beliefs, leadership, and institutions in the elusive, critical transition to sustainable development. Analyzing the last fifty years of Brazil's history, the authors explain how the nation's beliefs, centered on social inclusion yet bound by orthodox economic policies, led to institutions that altered economic, political, and social outcomes. Brazil's growth and inflation became less variable, the rule of law strengthened, politics became more open and competitive, and poverty and inequality declined. While these changes have led to a remarkable economic transformation, there have also been economic distortions and inefficiencies that the authors argue are part of the development process. Brazil in Transition demonstrates how a dynamic nation seized windows of opportunity to become a more equal, prosperous, and rules-based society.