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Envisioning Brazil : a guide to Brazilian studies in the United States, 1945-2003 / edited by Marshall C. Eakin and Paulo Roberto de Almeida.
- Format:
- Book
- Standardized Title:
- Brasil dos brasilianistas. English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Universities and colleges--Curricula--United States.
- Universities and colleges.
- Brazil--Study and teaching (Higher)--United States.
- Brazil.
- Brazil--Study and teaching (Higher)--Great Britain.
- Brazil--Study and teaching (Higher)--France.
- Brazil--Bibliography.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (532 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, c2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Envisioning Brazil is a comprehensive and sweeping assessment of Brazilian studies in the United States. Focusing on synthesis and interpretation and assessing trends and perspectives, this reference work provides an overview of the writings on Brazil by United States scholars since 1945. "The Development of Brazilian Studies in the United States, " provides an overview of Brazilian Studies in North American universities. "Perspectives from the Disciplines" surveys the various academic disciplines that cultivate Brazilian studies: Portuguese language studies, Brazilian literature, art, music, history, anthropology, Amazonian ethnology, economics, politics, and sociology. "Counterpoints: Brazilian Studies in Britain and France" places the contributions of U.S. scholars in an international perspective. "Bibliographic and Reference Sources" offers a chronology of key publications, an essay on the impact of the digital age on Brazilian sources, and a selective bibliography.
- Contents:
- Trends, perspectives, and prospects / Paulo Roberto de Almeida
- Research on Brazil in the United States / Robert M. Levine
- Teaching Brazil in U.S. universities / Theodore R. Young
- Brazilian Portuguese language and linguistics / Carmen Chaves Tesser
- Literature, culture, and civilization / K. David Jackson
- Arts and music / José Neistein
- Brazilian history in the United States / Judy Bieber
- Anthropology of amazonia / Janet M. Chernela
- The Brazilian economic system through U.S. lenses / Werner Baer and Roberto Guimaraes
- Political science and sociology / Marshall C. Eakin
- International relations / Scott D. Tollefson
- Geography / Cyrus B. Dawsey, III
- The British contribution to the study of Brazil / Leslie Bethell
- Comparative development of the study of Brazil in the United States and France / Edward A. Riedinger
- A chronology of U.S.-Brazil relations and academic publications, 1945-2003 / Paulo Roberto de Almeida
- Brasiliana in the United States : reference sources and documents / Ann Hartness
- Selective bibliography and chronology / Paulo Roberto de Almeida.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781283713566
- 128371356X
- 9780299207731
- 0299207730
- OCLC:
- 645921526
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