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Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2008; US$ 16.00A riveting account of the astonishing experiences and discoveries made by linguist Daniel Everett while he lived with the Pirahã, a small tribe of Amazonian Indians in central Brazil. Daniel Everett arrived among the Pirahã with his wife and three young children hoping to convert the tribe to Christianity. Everett quickly became obsessed with their... more...
Brazil Travel Adventures
Hunter Publishing 2008; US$ 19.99Brazil is one of the culturally rich nations in South America. This title provides readers with what they need to know for planning a trip to this area, including the best places to stay and eat - for various tastes and budgets; practical travel advice; and info on what to pack and when to go. more...
North Carolina
Infobase Publishing 2005; US$ 35.00Describes life in the early colony, including the many conflicts with Native Americans, disease, the presence of pirates, the use of timber and tar in shipbuilding (which contributed to the state's nickname "The Tar Heel State"), and the history of slavery in the colony. more...
CultureShock! Brazil
Marshall Cavendish International (Asia) Ptd Ltd 2008; US$ 11.17CultureShock! Brazil dispels the preconceptions about this diverse dynamic country and reveals the beauty and character that is Brazil. Written in a personable style, the book touches on all aspects of Brazilian life presenting the reader with a balanced, realistic and useful guide. This book leads you through the economic power house that is São... more...
The Candelaria Massacre
Vision Paperbacks 2009; US$ 17.99Just after midnight, in the early morning of 23 July 1993, a group of men, later identified as off-duty policemen, opened fire on a group of street children sleeping rough outside one of Rio de Janeiro's most prominent landmarks - the Church of Our Lady of the Candelaria. The incident became known as the Candelaria Massacre and it roused the people... more...
Our Separate Ways
The University of North Carolina Press 2005; US$ 23.00In an in-depth community study of women in the civil rights movement, Christina Greene examines how several generations of black and white women, low-income as well as more affluent, shaped the struggle for black freedom in Durham, North Carolina. In the city long known as "the capital of the black middle class," Greene finds that, in fact, low-income... more...
Amazon Peasant Societies in a Changing Environment
Springer 2008; US$ 129.99Amazonia is rarely appreciated as a historical place home to a range of different societies. This book addresses a comprehensive range of questions from the politics of conservation and sustainable development to the organization of women's work and the diet and health of Amazonian people. more...
Fear and Memory in the Brazilian Army and Society, 1889-1954
The University of North Carolina Press 2002; US$ 62.95For more than half a century, the Brazilian army used fear and censorship to erase aspects of its history from public memory and to create its own political myths. Although the military had remarkable success in promoting its version of events, recent democratization has allowed scholars access to new materials with which to challenge the "official... more...
Chapters of Brazil's Colonial History 1500-1800
Oxford University Press, USA 1998; US$ 15.99In Chapters in Brazil's Colonial History, Capistrano de Abreu created an integrated history of Brazil in a landmark work of scholarship that is also a literary masterpiece. Abreu offers a startlingly modern analysis of the past, based on the role of the economy, settlement, and the occupation of the interior. In these pages, he combines sharp portraits... more...
Legalizing Identities
The University of North Carolina Press 2009; US$ 25.00Anthropologists widely agree that identities--even ethnic and racial ones--are socially constructed. Less understood are the processes by which social identities are conceived and developed. Legalizing Identities shows how law can successfully serve as the impetus for the transformation of cultural practices and collective identity. Through ethnographic,... more...









