From Ireland to U.S.A. About this Item: Columbia University Press, 1995.
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Condition: Very Good. Hardcover, vii + 306pp, NOT ex-library. Clean and bright, untanned interior with unmarked text and firm binding. Free of inscriptions and stamps. Gentle external shelfwear. Lower rear board shows a faint dark non-sticky rectangle (residue of a removed ISBN sticker).
Published without a dust jacket. --- How do Brazilians think about their own culture in comparison with those of North America and Western Europe? The Brazilian Puzzle provides a unique picture of everyday life in Brazil viewed from a comparative perspective. Brazilian scholars and Brazilianists explore a range of topics in everyday life in Brazil, including sports, music, voluntary associations, religion, political practices, race and gender, and poor neighborhoods. The authors show how Brazilian culture involves a complex negotiation in which the traditional values of hierarchy and personalism permeate even the most modern institutions.
The Brazilian Puzzle is emblematic of the new era in Brazilian studies in which Brazilian scholars are leading the way. Many of the authors draw on the work of the Brazilian anthropologist Robert DaMatta, who has questioned the perspective of observers from developed Western countries. DaMatta argues that they often project their own categories onto Brazilian society, and instead he suggests that Latin Americans and other peoples develop their own theories rooted in their own unique experiences. In this way The Brazilian Puzzle contributes to the end of an era of Brazilianists and the decolonizing of area studies.
--- Contents: -- I. Brazilian Styles of Social Relations: -- 1. Brazilian Jeitinho: An Exercise in National Identity / Livia Neves de H. Swimming in Cross-Cultural Currents / Conrad Kottak 3. Small Town, Brazil: Heaven and Hell of Personalism / Rosane Prado; -- II. Race, Class, and Gender in a Changing Society: -- 4.
Rituals, Scandals, and Sex Crimes: Attempted Rape-Murders Across Two Generations / Maria Claudia Pereira Coelho 5. Morality and Transgression Among Brazilian Poor Families: Exploring Ambiguities / Cynthia Sarti 6. Celebration of Our Lord of the Good End: Changing State, Church, and Afro-Brazilian Relations in Bahia / Leni Silverstein; -- III. Ideologies and Cultures on an International Stage: -- 7. Tupi or Not Tupi MPB: Popular Music and Identity in Brazil / Martha de Ulhoa Cauralho 8. Hierarchy, Heterodoxy, and the Construction of Brazilian Religious Therapies / David J. Brazilianization of Alcoholics Anonymous / Jeffrey Jarrad; -- IV.