Brazil: Northeast

(see also Brazil, Brazil: Black History, Life & Values, Brazil: Military Regime, Brazil: Church & Society, Brazil since 1985 & Brazil: Lula & the Workers' Party)

Basics

On the Web: Specialized Sites

Terra: Brazil's Landless Movement. Sebastião Salgado.

On the Web: Articles

In the Library: Articles

Andrade, Manuel Correia de. "Ligas camponesas e sindicatos rurais no Nordeste, 1957-1964," Temas de Ciencias Humanas 8 (1980):115-32.

Biderman, Sol. "Six piles of salt," Nation (6/23/62).

Eckstein, C. "Report on Brazil's Northeast," Swiss Review of World Affairs 16 (1962).

Forman, Shepard. "Disunity & discontent: a study of peasant political movements in Brazil," in R. Chilcote (ed.) Protest & Resistance in Angola & Brazil (?,?), pp. 183-205.

Frederick, Kenneth D. "Agricultural development & the Brazilian Northeast," in Rosenbaum & Tyler (eds.) Contemporary Brazil (NY, 1972), pp. 279-98.

Goodman, P.E. "Rural structure, surplus mobilization & modes of production in a peripheral region: the Brazilian Northeast," Journal of Peasant Studies 5,1 (10/77):5-29.

Gross, Daniel & Barbara Underwood. "Technological change & caloric costs: sisal agriculture in Northeastern Brazil," American Anthropologist 73 (6/71):725-40.

Hewett, Cynthia N. "Brazil: the peasant movement of Pernambuco, 1961-1964," in H. Landsberger (ed.) Latin American Peasant Movements (Ithaca: Cornell, 1969), pp. 374-98.

Hirschman, Albert O. "Brazil's Northeast," in his Journeys Toward Progress (NY: 20th Century Fund, 1963), pp. 29-130.

Leeds, Anthony. "Brazil & the myth of Francisco Julião," in Maier & Weatherhead (eds.) Politics of Change in Latin America (NY, 1964), pp. 190-206. Harsh critique.

Levine, Robert M. "Letters from Recife," Luso-Brazilian Review 7 (1970).

Mallon, Florencia E. "Peasants & rural laborers in Pernambuco, 1955-1964," Latin American Perspectives 19 (fall 78):49-70.

Melo, M. Lacerda de. "Bases geográficas dos problemas do Nordeste," Revista Brasileira de Geografía 24 (1962):503-38.

Moraes, Clodomir. "Peasant leagues in Brazil," in Stavenhagen (ed.) Agrarian Problems & Peasant Movements in Latin America (NY, 1970), pp. 453-501.

Musgrove, Philip & Osmil Galindo. "Do the poor pay more? Retail food prices in Northeast Brazil," Economic Development & Cultural Change 37 (10/88):91-110.

Santos, M. "Les caractères originaux de l'agriculture dans le nord-est du Brésil," Caravelle 6 (1960):33-52.

Scheper-Hughes, Nancy. "Death without weeping," New Internationalist (4/94):4-28. Mothers, children & poverty in Northeast.

__________. "Postcards from Timbaúba: human rights vs. death squads in Northeast Brazil," UC Berkeley Center for Latin American Studies Newsletter (fall 01).

Siegel, B.J. "Migration dynamics in the interior of Ceará," Southwest Journal of Anthropology 22 (1971):234-58.

Zimmerman, Ben. "Race relations in the arid sertão," in C. Wagley (ed.) Race & Class in Rural Brazil (Paris, 1952), pp. 82-115.

In the Library: Non-Fiction Books

Andrade, Manuel Correia de. A terra e o homem no nordeste (São Paulo: Editora Brasileira, 1963; trans. by Dennis V. Johnson as Land & Man in Northeastern Brazil; Albuquerque: U. New Mexico, 1979). Environmental history of the region.

Arraes, Miguel. Brazil: The People & the Power [1969] (Harmondswoth: Penguin, 1972).

Callado, Antonio. Os industriais das secas e os galileus de Pernambuco (Rio, 1960).

__________. Tempo de Arraes: padres e comunistas na revolução sem violencia (Rio, 1964).

Castro, Josué de. Death in the Northeast (NY: Random House, 1966).

Fallaci, Oriana. Interview with History (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1976). Interview with Dom Helder Camara.

Gallet, Paul. Freedom to Starve [1967] (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972).

Galvão, Hélio. O mutirão no Nordeste (Rio: Ministerio de Agricultura, 1959). Rural coopersation systems.

Gregg, Jessica L. Virtually Virgins: Sexual Strategies & Cervical Cancer in Recife, Brazil (Stanford: Stanford U, 2003).

Hall, Anthony L. Social & Economic Obstacles to Agrarian Reform in Northeast Brazil (Glasgow, 1970).

__________. Drought & Irrigation in Northeast Brazil (NY: Cambridge, 1978).

Julião, Francisco. Que são as ligas camponesas? (Rio, 1962).

__________. Ligas camponesas (outubro 1962-abril 1964) (Cuernavaca: CIDOC, 1969).

__________. Cambão: The Yoke. The Hidden Face of Brazil (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972).

Hecht, Tobias. At Home in the Street: Street Children of Northeast Brazil (Cambridge, MA: Cambridge, 1998)

Leal, Victor Nunes. Coronelismo: The Municipality & Representative Government in Brazil [1948] (NY: Cambridge, 1977).

Martes, Ana Cristina Braga. Cenas do Brasil migrante (São Paulo: Boitempo, 1999).

Mota, Mauro. Votos e ex-votos: aspectos da vida social no Nordeste (Recife, 1968).

Page, Joseph A. The Revolution that Never Was: Northeast Brazil, 1955-1964 (NY: Grossman, 1972).

Pereira, Anthony W. The End of Peasantry: The Rural Labor Movement in Northeast Brazil, 1961-1988 (Pittsburgh: U. Pittsburgh, 1997).

Roett, Riordan. The Politics of Foreign Aid in the Brazilian Northeast (Nashville: Vanderbilt U, 1972).

Scheper-Hughes, Nancy. Death Without Weeping: The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil (Berkeley: U. of California, 1992).

Tobelem, Alain. Josué de Castro e a descoberta da fome (Rio, 1974).

Tydings, Joseph. Born to Starve (NY: Morrow, 1970).

Vilaça, Marcos Vinicios e Roberto Cavalcanti de Albuquerque. Coronel, coroneis (Rio de Janeiro: Tempo Brasileiro, 1965).

In the Library: Fiction

In the Library: For Young Readers

In the Library: Poetry

In the Library: Drama

Melo Neto, João Cabral de. Morte e vida severina (auto de natal pernambucano) (Rio, 1967).

In the Library: Photography

CD & Audio

Film & Video

"Behind the Sun (Abril despedaçado)" [2001], dir. Walter Salles, 105m. In video stores.

"O cangaceiro"

"Drought [Seca]" [1991], by TV Viva, 30m. From LAVA. Documentary on poverty in the Northeast & politicians' false promises to do something about it.

"In Cane for Life" [2001], dir. Jorge Wolney Attala, 69m. Labor cycle in sugar cane harvest.

"Mango Yellow" [2002], dir. Cláudio Assis, 100m. From First Run/Icarus. Favela dwellers in Recife.

"Perfumed Ball (Baile perfumado)" [1997], dir. Lirio Ferreira & Paulo Caldas, 93m. 1930s filmmaker tracks down cangaceiro chief to try & make a documentary.

"Vidas secas"