Brazil
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- DaMatta, Roberto. 1991. Carnivals, Rogues, and Heroes: An Interpretation of the Brazilian Dilemma. University of Notre Dame Press.
- McCann, Bryan. 2004. Hello, Hello Brazil: Popular Music in the Making of Modern Brazil. Duke University Press.
- Fishlow, Albert. 2011. Starting Over: Brazil Since 1985. Brookings Institution Press.
- Goldstein, Donna M. 2003. Laughter Out of Place: Race, Class, Violence, and Sexuality in a Rio Shantytown (California Series in Public Anthropology). University of California Press.
- Parker, Richard G. 2009. Bodies, Pleasures, and Passions: Sexual Culture in Contemporary Brazil (2nd Edition). Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press.
- Holston, James. 2008. Insurgent Citizenship: Disjunctions of Democracy and Modernity in Brazil. Princeton University Press.
- Avritzer, Leonardo. 2009. Participatory Institutions in Democratic Brazil. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press.
- Wolford, Wendy. 2010. This Land Is Ours Now: Social Mobilization and the Meanings of Land in Brazil. Duke University Press.
- French, Jan Hoffman. 2009. Legalizing Identities: Becoming Black or Indian in Brazil's Northeast. The University of North Carolina Press.
- Hochstetler, Kathryn and Margaret E. Keck. 2007. Greening Brazil: Environmental Activism in State and Society. Duke University Press.
