Major Nations in a Global World: Brazil

E Eckhout, Albert 11 economy 14, 19, 35–38, 39 education 18, 33–35, 39 INDEX

H health care 19

holiday celebrations and traditions 44 housing 19–20, 20, 36, 52, 52, 53, 55

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 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 G Gama, Vasco da 10, 15

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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