The Masters And The Slaves by Gilberto Freyre

Passados Trinta anos de sua morte, procuro nesse artigo analisar a atualidade de seu pensamento, buscando apontar quais questões que ele nos lança que ainda nos são relevantes para pensar o Brasil. Suas obras, com destaque para Casa-Grande & Senzala (1933), são continuamente revisitadas através de inúmeros balanços críticos, especialmente no que tange à questão das relações raciais no Brasil. O trabalho de Gilberto Freyre (1900-1987) é reconhecido como um dos mais originais e relevantes de interpretação do Brasil. Keywords: Brazilian studies, racial relations, miscegenation, Latin American studies, Brazilian social thought, Gilberto Freyre. Thirty years after his death, I seek in this article to analyze the actuality of his thought, seeking to point out which issues he throws at us that are still relevant to think about Brazil. His works, notably The Masters and the Slaves (1933), are continually revisited through countless critical balances, especially with regard to the issue of race relations in Brazil. nslic.The work of Gilberto Freyre (1900-1987) is recognized as one of the most original and relevant interpretations of Brazil. Latin America, Brazil, South America, Anthropology, Sociology, Archaeology, Slavery. Only a Brazililan steeped in the history, literature, and lore of this huge country could have conceived this book. It has at least one quality of great literature: it suggests far more than it states, sends its readers' minds on trecks and side-trips of their own. And from beginning to end The Masters and the Slaves is absorbing, colorful, and dense with material.

In doing so, he throws blinding light into the color problem, the meaning of 'civilization' and 'culture,' the political and economic situation in Latin America, the significance of ethnological and anthropologicaljudgments, etc. He deals with race, climate, agronomy, sexual habits, architecture, art, religion, sorcery, literature, history, food, economics, and a thousand other factors that made the Brazil of today. With astonishing erudition, with a sense of style, and with a towering gift for gripping narrative, Senhor Freyre has applied all the modern techniques of social study to the remarkably successful melting-pot culture of 'medieval' Brazil. From dust jacket: This is the long-awaited translation into English of Gilberto Freyre's masterpiece, Casa-Grande & Senzala. Near-Fine in a Very Good,mylar protected dust jacket with light edgewear that includes chipping. Octavo, black cloth (hardcover), gilt letters and decoration to spine, decoration blind-stamped to upper cover, uncut, lxxi pp, 537 pp, xliv pp.

The Masters And The Slaves by Gilberto Freyre