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Carnivals, Rogues and Heroes

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Description for Carnivals, Rogues and Heroes Paperback. In this work, Roberto DaMatta focuses on the trajectories of three types of public ritual (carnival, Independence Day and other military parades, and local-level religious processions) as principal axes in defining the values and attitudes that shape urban Brazil. Translator(s): Drury, John. Num Pages: 291 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; JFC; JHBT; JHM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 17. Weight in Grams: 404.
Encompassing half the continent of South America, Brazil is one of the most modern, complex, and misunderstood nations. Renowned Brazilian anthropologist Roberto DaMatta takes the misconceptions and offers a fresh, provocative interpretation of the complexity of social structure in Brazil. Using the tools of comparative social anthropology, DaMatta seeks to understand his native country by examining the values, attitudes, and systems that shape the identity of Brazil and its people. He probes the dilemma between the highly authoritarian, hierarchical aspects of Brazilian society and the concurrent desire for equality, democracy, and harmony in that same society. DaMatta leads us on ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press United States
Number of pages
291
Condition
New
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
Notre Dame IN, United States
ISBN
9780268007942
SKU
V9780268007942
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About Roberto Damatta
>Robert DaMatta is The Reverend Edmund P. Joyce, C.S.C. Professor of Anthropology at the University of Notre Dame and Senior Fellow at The Kellogg Institute at Notre Dame. He has published several books, including A Divided World: Apinaye Social Structure.

Reviews for Carnivals, Rogues and Heroes
“Anthropologists who work in Brazil have long recognized DaMatta’s provocative Carnavais, malandros e herois as a classic ethnography of Brazilian national culture. Its publication in English is a boon to those who study ritual and myth in urbanized, industrial societies and those who, against the postmodern grain, seek to describe national cultures.” —American Anthropologist In the past [four] decades Roberto ... Read more

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