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A protrait of Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano in which he discusses his understanding of the Indian, African and European roots of contemporary Latin American culture.
Chico Buarque is a Brazilian singer/songwriter, who has also written for the theatre and cinema and is the author of a best-selling novel. Here he talks and sings about carnival in Rio, football, and his novel.
Examines the ways young street traders, or ‘street kids’, in Recife, north-east Brazil, do their sums. Often these children have had very little schooling and art not proficient in traditional...
The story of Brazil’s greatest living explorers, Claudio and Orlando Villas Boas, now both in their 70s, who retrace their 1943 expedition into a then unexplored region of the southern Amazon. Their...
Presents two contrasting views on the significance of the context of learning: 1) a case study of the way Brazilian street children acquire mathematical skills without going to school. Context is...
Series examining the political, economic and cultural problems facing the people of the Brazilian Amazon.
Introduces the Amazon goldrush and shows the impact on the Yanomami Indians. Includes graphic footage of the devastating effects of mines, air traffic and disease on the Yanomami people. The various...
Using scanning electron microscopy, examines Cretaceous fossil fish whose internal structure, e.g. gill lamellae, musculature, etc. had been preserved by bacteria-induced phosphatisation in the tissue within...
Early in 1989 the Kayapo rallied other Brazilian Indians to attend a re-unification of the tribes at Altamira - the proposed site of a massive hydro-electric dam that will flood large parts of the Xingu...
Looks at the role of the EEC, the World Bank, and multinational mining companies in the destruction of the Amazon forest and how it is related to Brazil’s national debt? Filmed over four years at Sossego,...
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