David J. Hess

Roberto da Matta

Roberto DaMatta

How do Brazilians think about their own culture in comparison with those of North America and Western Europe? The Brazilian Puzzle provides a unique picture of everyday life in Brazil viewed from a comparative perspective. Brazilian scholars and Brazilianists explore a range of topics in everyday life in Brazil, including sports, music, voluntary associations, religion, political practices, race and gender, and poor neighborhoods. The authors show how Brazilian culture involves a complex negotiation in which the traditional values of hierarchy and personalism permeate even the most modern institutions. The Brazilian Puzzle is emblematic of the new era in Brazilian studies in which Brazilian scholars are leading the way. Many of the authors draw on the work of the Brazilian anthropologist Robert DaMatta, who has questioned the perspective of observers from developed Western countries. DaMatta argues that they often project their own categories onto Brazilian society, and instead he suggests that Latin Americans and other peoples develop their own theories rooted in their own unique experiences. In this way The Brazilian Puzzle contributes to the end of an era of Brazilianists and the decolonizing of area studies.

Culture on the Borderlands of the Western World

The Brazilian Puzzle

Neil Gaiman

Julian Barnes

Benjamin Black

Etgar Keret

Patrícia Melo

Bernardo Kucinski

André de Leones

Paloma Vidal

Aleksander Hemon

Karen Acioly

Doze anos de boas histórias reunidos num único e-book. Retrospectiva Rocco na FLIP é uma coletânea digital que reúne trechos de alguns dos principais livros lançados pela Rocco ao longo das 12 edições da FLIP, a Festa Literária Internacional de Paraty. De Julian Barnes, premiado escritor britânico que participou da primeira FLIP, em 2003, ao israelense Etgar Keret, uma das estrelas da festa em 2014, passando por Neil Gaiman, Patrícia Melo, André de Leones, Paloma Vidal, Roberto DaMatta e o bósnio Aleksandar Hemon, o livro é uma celebração da literatura em suas mais variadas origens e estilos.

Retrospectiva Rocco na Flip

Roberto DaMatta

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