![]() ![]() ![]() At the extreme Amazon, the island of São Luís do Maranhão, with its strong Afro-Amerindian features, its mine drum and its bumba-meu-boi, crossing point or a transition zone between the black-bred culture and the cabocla culture that extends north through forests and streams. 12 Darcy Ribeiro, O Povo Brasileiro (So Paulo: Companhia das Letras, 1995), 47. At an extra-northeastern end, Brazil Creole will include Rio de Janeiro. This is the first English-language translation of the controversial bestseller O Povo Brasileiro by Darcy Ribeiro, one of Brazils leading 20th. more fundamentally marked by the presence of black African elements, forms and practices, especially after the arrival of the jejes and nagoes, who knew how to imprint their signs on the landscape they found in. sugarcane in the wind, the sea coves and rivers, the lush vegetation, the voduns and orishas, and the baroque northeast, with its golden churches, its colorful and shrill carnivals, its cherubim. ![]() ![]() We call Creole cultural area the historical-cultural configuration resulting from the implementation of the sugar economy and its complements and attachments in the Northeast Brazilian coast, which goes from Rio Grande do Norte to Bahia "(Darcy Ribeiro). ![]()
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