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 Traditions and customs

Brazilians are warm, curious, and communicative. Do not be surprised at the amount of physical contact: touching your shoulder and hugging is common; do not be too formal. Although the Brazilian is sincere at the time, he can then forget you very quickly.
Discounting, which is called 'desconto', is common practice. Do not hesitate to ask for it.

 To read, see, listen

guide Lonely Planet Brazil.
Brazil (Eyewitness Travel Guide).
The Rough Guide to Brazil (Rough Guide Travel Guides).
Brazil (Footprint Travel Guides).
Brazil Insight Guide (Insight Guides).
Frommer's Brazil (Frommer's Complete).
Brazil: Amazon And Pantanal (Travellers' Wildlife Guides).
Brazil, 5th Edition (Footprint Brazil Handbook)
Knopf Mapguide Rio de Janeiro (Knopf Mapguides). This is a map of the city. DVD:

Pilot Guides - Destination Brazil [2002]
Escapi UK Ltd. Brazil: A Cook's Tour. Content: includes more than 100 rich, colorful photographs, a mail-order source guide, and a list of special places to visit in Brazil. 125 4-color photographs.
books The Brazilian Photographs of Genevieve Naylor, 1940-1942,
Robert M. Levine, Robert M. Levine, Luiz Fernando Benedini, and Peter Reznikoff. Duke University Press.

Brazil: The Green Colour of the Earth (Countries of the World), Alberto Taliani. This work takes you on a trip to one of the most beautiful bays in the world, Rio de Janeiro, which has become a major destination again. Copacabana, the Sugar Loaf, Ipanema, etc., are cult places to discover in the heart of the European winter , following the example of the famous carnival.

Novels, essays and short stories
All Saints' Bay, by Jorge Amado.
Captains of the Sand, by Jorge Amado.
Cacao, by Jorge Amado
The Violent Land, by Jorge Amado.
The Alienist, by Jaoquim Machado de Assis.


movies "Black Orpheus", by Marcel Camus (1959).
"Central Station", by Walter Salles (1998).
"City of God" by Fernando Meirelles (2003)
"Me,You,Them", by Andrucha Waddington. With the actress Regina Casé and the music of Gilberto Gil.
"The Candeal miracle" by Fernando Trueba.
mixture of Cuban and Brazilian music with Carlinhos Brown and Bebo Valdés.
"Brasileirinho" by Mika Kaurismaki. 2005 (documentary on the choro, Brazilian popular urban music)
"I live in Brazil" by Mika Kaurismaki. (musical documentary on samba).



music Chico Buarque, Caetono Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Milton Nascimiento, Seu Jorge, Daniela Mercury...
Samba: Cartola, Noel Rosa, Martinho da Vila.
Bossa nova: João Gilberto, Tom Jobim, Vinícius de Moraes.
Samba fusion: Luís Melodia.
Afro-Brazilian percussion: Olodum, Ylê Aiê, Carlinhos Brown.