HS 360 - Brazil: History and Culture

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Monmouth University

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Description:

This lecture-seminar style course exposes students to the cultural diversity and historical processes that have produced modern Brazil. Our approach focuses on the effects that large-scale socio-economic processes (e.g. colonization, mercantilism, slavery, nation-building, free trade) have had on the lives of everyday people, past and present, paying special attention to issues of race, gender, and material inequality. We examine the livelihoods and belief-systems of Amazonian Indians, African slave communities, urban slum-dwellers, subsistence cultivators, and Japanese immigrants, looking at their contributions to Brazil's history, and studying the national culture that somehow makes them all Brazilians. Also listed as Anthropology 360. Course Type(s): HSLA, WT

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Additional Information:

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Institution Website:

www.monmouth.edu

Phone Number:

(732) 571-3400

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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