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Ancient Tupi Home Page: A guide to the Tupi language spoken in Brazil between 1500 and 1700 AD, together with details of the Indigen tribes who used it. Provides a brief introduction to the language, and offers an outline of the alphabet, phonetics, and grammar. A dictionary is also featured, and information is available in Portuguese and English.
Author: Ribeiro, Lincoln A. A.
Subjects: brazil, language learning
DeweyClass: 498.3829
Resource type: guide
Artnoir: Monthly exploration of the art of African America, Caribbean America, Afro-Latin America including Brazil and Polynesia. Links to artists, collectors, galleries, libraries, museums, exhibitions, publications, and a directory of national fine art.
Author: Wesport Foundation and Gallery
Subjects: african americans, art exhibitions, brazil, caribbean, ethnic art
DeweyClass: 700
Resource type: magazine
Brazil: Links to Internet resources about Brazil. Headings include academic research resources, discussion groups, economy and finance, government, magazines and periodicals, news and newspapers, science and technology, travel and tourism, university Web servers.
Author: University of Texas at Austin
Subjects: brazil
DeweyClass: 918.1
Resource type: index
Brazil Country Report on Human Rights Practices for 2006: Detailed assessment of human rights practices in Brazil. Topics assessed include torture, arbitrary detention or exile, fair public trial, freedom of speech and press, freedom of assembly, movement and religion; democratic rights, worker rights, and discrimination based on race, sex, religion, disability, language, or social status.
Author: US Department of State
Subjects: brazil
DeweyClass: 323.81
Resource type: document
Brazil: Government of the Federative Republic of Brazil: Official information (in Portuguese) from the government of the Republic of Brazil.
Author: Brazilian Government
Subjects: brazil
DeweyClass: 351.81
Resource type: government
Brazilian Government Document Digitization Project: A selection of documents issued by Brazil's national government between 1821 and 1993. Includes presidential reports and messages, ministerial reports and issues of Almanak Administrativo, published annually by the Brazilian Royal Court between 1844 and 1889. Most information is in Portuguese.
Author: Center for Research Libraries/Latin American Microfilm Project
Subjects: brazil, government links, political history
DeweyClass: 351.8
Resource type: documents
Canela Indians of Northeastern Central Brazil: Based primarily on pioneering research conducted by William Crocker, this resource hosted by the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History aims to educate visitors about the Canela Native Americans of Central Brazil. Offers numerous sections that allow visitors to explore the lives of these little known people by providing artefacts, articles, images, video clips, and information relating to social customs and rituals. Articles are in pdf format and provide analyses of various aspects of Canela life, such as initiation festivals, demographic characteristics, and the Canela relationship with ghosts.
Author: Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
Subjects: archaeology education, archaeology research, brazil, south america
DeweyClass: 909.0498
Resource type: articles, images, museum
CIA World Factbook: Brazil: Basic reference information about Brazil, including details of geography, people, economy, government, communications, transportation, military and transnational issues. Geographical information includes area, population, flag, maps, high and low points, co-ordinates, boundary length, border countries, climate, land use and natural resources.
Author: CIA
Subjects: brazil
DeweyClass: 918.1
Resource type: document
Ethnologue Language Database: Brazil: A catalogue of all the languages and dialects spoken in Brazil, with details of the numbers of speakers of each language. Also some demographic data such as rates of literacy, blindness and deafness.
Author: Summer Institute of Linguistics
Subjects: brazil
DeweyClass: 409.81
Resource type: document
Large Scale Biosphere - Atmosphere Experiment in Amazonia: An international research initiative lead by Brazil designed to create the new knowledge needed to understand the climatological, ecological, biogeochemical, and hydrological functioning of Amazonia, the impact of land use change on these functions, and the interactions between Amazonia and the Earth system.
Author: CPTEC: Centro de Previsao de Tempo e Estudos Climaticos
Subjects: brazil, environmental research, tropics
DeweyClass: 577.091
Resource type: documents
Last Frontiers: Brazil: Introduction to Brazil which includes a bibliography, photographs and travel information.
Author: Last Frontiers
Subjects: brazil
DeweyClass: 918.1
Resource type: promotion
Maps of the Americas: Set of political and relief maps produced by the CIA covering Canada, all the countries in Central and South America and the Caribbean.
Author: Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection, University of Texas at Austin
Subjects: antigua and barbuda, argentina, bahamas, barbados, belize, bermuda, bolivia, brazil, canada, canadian geography, caribbean, central america, chile, colombia, costa rica, cuba, dominica, dominican republic, ecuador, el salvador, grenada, guatemala, guyana, haiti, honduras, jamaica, mexico, nicaragua, panama, paraguay, peru, saint kitts nevis, saint lucia, saint vincent, south america, suriname, trinidad and tobago, uruguay, venezuela, world maps
DeweyClass: 912.7
Resource type: map collection
Political Resources on the Net: Brazil: Listing of political resources relevant to Brazil, with links to parties, organisations, government, media and results of recent elections, where available.
Author: Torre Argentina Societa di Servizi - Agora telematica Division
Subjects: brazil
DeweyClass: 320.981
Resource type: documents, index
Ponteiro: Directory of Brazilian Web resources covering topics such as arts, culture, education, medicine, politics, and religion, with a cross-search facility enabling retrieval across a maximum of four international search engines. Information is presented in Portuguese.
Author: R. H. Software
Subjects: brazil
DeweyClass: 918.1
Resource type: directory
Wonders of Brazilian Music: Contains three main sections entitled artists, albums, and styles. A discography, tributes, and links are provided for each artist, album titles are annotated and arranged alphabetically, and styles are described, with links to examples where possible.
Author: Sixpack, Joe
Subjects: brazil
DeweyClass: 780.9
Resource type: documents, images
World Travel Guide: Brazil: Basic reference information about Brazil, such as area, capital, population, population density, geography, language, religion, time zone, history and government, plus business and social information, including details of accommodation, addresses, climate, regions, travel, visas, passports, money, health and public holidays.
Author: Columbus Press
Subjects: brazil, south american travel and tourism
DeweyClass: 918.1
Resource type: documents