Books About Brazil

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Enliven your Wiccan and Magical practices with a dose of Brazilian magic

Get ready to launch yourself on an incredible journey into a fascinating cultural force and powerful magical system. Born in turn-of-the-century Brazil, the vibrant magical religions of Umbanda, Macumba, Spiritism, and Candomblé combined ecstatic African traditions with European Spiritualism. They share much in common with Wicca, shamanism, and even ceremonial magic.

This book is an insider’s look at their practices, practices that you can incorporate into your own workings. Call on the powers of the Orixás, the gods of the Afro-Brazilian pantheon; practice their spellwork and rituals, trance and mediumship; experience the energies of tropical botanicals used in magic and healing; and sample Afro-Brazilian cuisine: the foods of the gods.

·This book presents authentic Brazilian magic from a Portuguese and Brazilian scholar. The author has attended ceremonies, interviewed heads of sects, recorded music, and collected artifacts for this book
·Deepens understanding of channeling, color magic, drumming, nature religions, naturopathic healing, even psychotherapy
·Introduces a refreshing perspective with important lessons for practitioners of all religions

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Magic from Brazil: Recipes, Spells & Rituals

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Social and feminist historians will certainly applaud the sensitivity with which this book unveils the duress of servants’ working and living conditions without neglecting to portray human endurance and individual or collective resistance to oppression from above. Everybody will read with great pleasure this creative, well argued and elegantly written book. ” –Journal of Latin American Studies During the later half of the nineteenth century, a majority of Brazilian women worked, most as domestic servants, either slave or free. House and Street re-creates the working and personal lives of these women, drawing on a wealth of documentation from archival, court, and church records. Lauderdale Graham traces the intricate and ambivalent relations that existed between masters and servants. She shows how for servants the house could be a place of protection–as well as oppression–while the street could be dangerous–but also more autonomous. She integrates her discoveries with larger events taking place in Rio de Janeiro during the period, including the epidemics of the 1850s, the abolition of slavery, the demolition of slums, and major improvements in sanitation during the first decade of the 1900s. Houseand Street was originally published by Cambridge University Press in 1988. For this paperback edition, Lauderdale Graham has provided a new introduction.

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House and Street: The Domestic World of Servants and Masters in Nineteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro

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Combining historical, political, and ethnographic research, the author shows that the relationship between faith healing and illness in the conversion process is integral to the popularity of Pentecostalism among Brazil’s poor.

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Born Again in Brazil: The Pentecostal Boom and the Pathogens of Poverty

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Greening Brazil: Environmental Activism in State and Society

Kathryn Hochstetler and Margaret E. Keck

Kathryn Hochstetler and Margaret E. Keck

Greening Brazil challenges the claim that environmentalism came to Brazil from abroad. Political scientists Kathryn Hochstetler and Margaret E. Keck retell the story of environmentalism in Brazil from the inside out, analyzing the extensive efforts within the country to save its natural environment and the interplay of those efforts with transnational environmentalism. They trace Brazil’s complex environmental politics as they have unfolded over time, from their mid-twentieth-century conservationist beginnings to the contemporary development of a distinctive “socio-environmentalism” which seeks to address ecological destruction and social injustice simultaneously. Hochstetler and Keck argue that explanations of Brazilian environmentalism–and environmentalism in the global South generally–must take into account the way that domestic political processes shape environmental reform efforts.

The authors present a multilevel analysis encompassing institutions and individuals within the government–at national, state, and local levels–as well as the activists, special interest groups, and nongovernmental organizations that operate outside formal political processes. They emphasize the importance of networks linking committed actors within the government bureaucracy with activists in civil society. Portraying a gradual process punctuated by periods of rapid advance, the authors show how political opportunities have arisen from major political transformations, such as the transition to democracy, and from critical events, including the well-publicized murders of environmental activists in 1988 and 2004. Hochstetler and Keck contend that rather than instigating environmental policy changes within Brazil, foreign governments and organizations provide much needed leverage and support to domestic actors at key moments.

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After the 1994 Real Plan ended fourteen years of high inflation in Brazil, the country’s economy was expected – mistakenly – to grow quickly. Luiz Carlos Bresser-Pereira discusses Brazil’s economic trajectory from the mid-1990s to the present Lula administration, critically appraising the neoliberal reforms that have curtailed growth and proposing a national development strategy geared toward effective competition in the global marketplace. This title offers a reasoned critique of the neoliberal reforms that have curtailed economic growth in Brazil since the mid-1990s, informing a proposal for an innovative new development strategy.

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Developing Brazil: Overcoming the Failure of the Washington Consensus

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Victoria’s mother was born in Brazil, but she and her daughter live in London. Now it’s time for a visit to the country where Mom grew up. From a coffee farm to a saint’s day procession, from a street children’s shelter to a huge family barbeque, Victoria learns about her mother’s country and enjoys getting to know her large Brazilian family. Using vibrant photographs and a first-person narrative based on the fresh perceptions of a child, Victoria Goes to Brazil stimulates young imaginations by showcasing the unfamiliar yet fascinating food, clothing, customs, and culture of this colorful and diverse country.
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Victoria Goes to Brazil

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Brazil Contemporary celebrates the vibrancy of Brazilian culture through a diverse selection of art, architecture, pop culture and ephemera featuring the country’s characteristic fusion of street aesthetics, high and low cultural references, political engagement and traditional craftsmanship. Brazil, one of the largest countries in the world, boasts an astonishingly heterogeneous population that has given rise to an eclectic national style. This well illustrated volume documents three months of Rotterdam-based exhibitions and events–organized jointly by the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, the Netherlands Architecture Institute and the Dutch Photo Museum–exploring the many facets of Brazil’s creative output. It gathers works by some of the country’s greatest artists, architects and designers such as Rivane Neuenschwander, Iran do Espirito Santo, Ernesto Neto, Lucia Koch, Ricardo Basbaum, Renate Lucas, Oscar Niemeyer, Lina Bo Bardi and Paulo Mendes da Rocha, with a particular focus on Helio Oiticica, who died in 1980, and who is often heralded as the father of the country’s culturally fluid aesthetic style. An immensely productive painter and sculptor, Oiticica’s work bridges the Modern and Postmodern, Minimal and Post-Minimal, while evidencing influences as diverse as Mondrian and Samba. At over 300 pages, this catalogue is as packed with much diversity and richness as the culture it examines.

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The creative output of the new Brazilian architecture, design, art, fashion, photography and advertising scene presented in six chapters. As a melting pot for avant-garde designs, Brazil is a trendsetter for creative people the world over.

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Creative Brazil

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An analysis of the intransigence of Brazilian racism in which the author asks why there is still faith in Brazil’s “racial democracy” in the face of pervasive racism in all aspects of Brazilian life. The author also illuminates the problems activists face when trying to set up antiracist movements.

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Racism in a Racial Democracy: The Maintenance of White Supremacy in Brazil

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Brazil: A Century of World Cup Football is:

A critical analysis and comparison of the play of Brazil, Germany and Italy in the World Cup.
A comprehensive appraisal of football’s two greatest players – Pele and Maradona – goal for goal; skill for skill; and championships won for championships won.
Relive the philosophy, decent conduct and tactics, and the beautiful football that made Pele, Brazil and soccer so popular all over the world.
When excerpts from the book were published in newspapers in Nigeria; Canada; Turkey; Ghana; Kenya; Cameroon; South Africa; and Egypt, there were reports of widespread joy and excitement amongst those who read.
That joy and excitement, which only the highest calibre of World Cup play can elicit – as it was in 1958, 1962, 1970, and 1994 – reverberate through every page of this book. This is what we expect from Brazil at South Africa 2010.

Editorial Reviews

Anthony Ikpong is a Nigerian soccer fan who lives in Canada, where he is a Bridge Engineer by profession … For a man whose discipline is engineering, the depth and dazzle of Anthony’s writing will leave you enthralled. So get ready for a thrill of your life as Anthony takes you through the 20th Century of World Cup Football!
—-Dave Enechukwu, Post Express – Lagos

Anthony Ikpong, the author of this book, is noted for his fierce debates about soccer matters and he enjoys the respect of some of the leading soccer publications in Africa and Canada including CAF News. He occasionally writes for the Sowetan.
—-Molefi Mika, The Sowetan – Johannesburg

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