Time Zones in Brazil Due to the great longitudinal extension (east-west), Brazil has more than 1 time zone in its territory. These time zones lag behind areas to the east, including the Greenwich Meridian. Thus, if the Brazilian oceanic islands are...
Agriculture and Livestock. The state economy has been organized, since colonial times, around the collection of forest products. The economic collapse of rubber was followed by a prolonged crisis, from which it was not until 1930 that the state began to...
With the fusion of cultural and religious elements, religious syncretism in Brazil was born with the arrival of the first Portuguese colonizers who brought the teachings of Catholicism. With the presence of African slaves, alongside the Indians, this process intensified. Africans...
The map of black cultural production and its urban and rural history is being organized and already partially made available through computerized means. The history now available only in closed collections or of difficult access, also abroad, sometimes fragmented, is being...
Zombie, show your face! Now, at the end of its quarter century, the country is undergoing profound changes. In the early 1900s, representatives of the state and the leading sectors promised that this would be a white country in a hundred...
The identity of a people, in a national state, can change, slowly, following historical changes or more quickly, especially during periods of war or major local or world transformations. Often such changes are generated over a period of time and, after...
