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Casa grande & senzalaMasters and Slaves
What does it mean to be Brazilian? This was the question Gilberto Freyre used to ask his students in the cosmopolitan setting of New York's Columbia University. He investigated the past, his own and his family's, as well as the history of the people through whom he was socially conditioned. He studied the formation of Brazilian society, in particular its first three centuries of existence, analyzing the contribution of the indigenous people, the Portuguese and the African-Brazilians. He completed his work in 1933 and published it as "Masters and Slaves", which was a revolution in the arts and social sciences of Brazil. After this book, there was Brazilian history before "Masters and Slaves" and Brazilian history after "Masters and Slaves".
Brazil - 2001 - 58mn, 57mn, 56mn - Betacam Digital - Colour
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