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E
Eckhout, Albert
11
economy 14, 19, 35–38, 39
education 18, 33–35, 39
elementary school
(ginásio)
33
environmental threats 7, 38, 54
Escadaria Selarón (Rio de Janeiro)
48
Espírito Santo 38
ethanol 37
Ethiopia 13
European exploration and settlement 9–11
explorers
(bandeirantes)
12
exports 36–38, 39
F
family and family roles 17–22
farming 13, 54
favelas (slums) 19–20,
20,
52, 55.
See also
housing
feijoada
(stew) 29,
29
fish balls 27
food and culinary traditions 25–31,
26,
27,
28,
29,
30,
31
football.
See
soccer
friendship
16,
22
G
Gama, Vasco da 10, 15
gender roles 17–19
geography 49–54
Germany 25
“Girl from Ipanema, The” (Jobim and
Moraes) 45
Goiás 38, 54
gold mining 12, 15, 36, 38,
38
Goulart, João 18
H
health care 19
holiday celebrations and traditions 44
housing 19–20,
20,
36, 52,
52,
53, 55
I
illiteracy 19
independent nation status 13
India 9–10, 29
indigenous tribes: family traditions 20–21,
21,
22,
23; food and culinary
influence 25–28, 31; geographic
distribution 7, 52–53; and
Portuguese colonization 11–12
industrialization 36
International Monetary Fund 36
iron ore 38
Isabel (Princess Imperial of Brazil) 14,
14,
52
Island of the True Cross 10
J
Japan 25
jazz 45
Jesuit missionaries 12, 51
João VI (king of Portugal)
13
Jobim, Antonio Carlos 45
Judaism 12
K
Kadjor (Kayapo chief)
21
Kayapo tribe 20–21,
21
Kaye (Kayapo chief)
21
kinship 22
L
Landowsky, Paul 52
landscape
23,
49–54
languages 26
Latin America 36
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