Articles tagged with: Natives
Brazil explained in 100 images (Part 3)
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Enjoy this tour of 150 years of Brazilian history through photography and other iconography. Ten Fridays, ten pictures …
Footage of isolated indians in the Amazon
You may have seen, this week, the first images of a group of isolated Amazonian Indians that live near the Peru-Brazilian border. This is the moving aerial footage produced by José Carlos Moraes, from Funai, …
Brazil explained in 100 images (part 1)
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Today we will begin a tour of 150 years of Brazilian history through photography and other iconography. Ten …
Brazilian Babel
by Sylvia Estrella*
You may be under the impression – like most people – that Portuguese is the only language spoken in Brazil. In fact, 0.5% of the population (around 750,000 people) are native speakers of …
Saints without a halo*
They were not canonized. They are controversial. There is even doubt if some of them really existed. Nevertheless, Brazilian popular saints generate deep devotion, pilgrimages and flourishing commerce.
Take, for example, Escrava Anastácia. This beautiful slave …
