![]() ![]() These included the centrality of the patriarchal family as a social institution, Brazil's historical formation as a slave society, the sugar plantation as an institution, and the importance of folkways, especially those related to the house, food, and healing. Many of the ideas of Casa-grande & senzala and its two sequels, Sobrados e mucambos (The Mansions and the Shanties, 1936) and Ordem e progresso (Order and Progress, 1959), established themes for the next generation of social scientists in Brazil. For example, the claim that Brazil was a model of racial harmony became a theme of Brazilian diplomatic initiatives. It eventually inspired Carnival samba pageants (1962) as well as nationalist political propaganda. ![]() ![]() This energetic and erotic essay became a best-seller. Modern Brazilians were not doomed racial mongrels but rather the fortunate heirs of the colonial plantation's fusion of Portuguese, Indian, and African culture. Freyre argued that Brazil's "mixture" was psychic and cultural in addition to racial. His historical essay Casa-grande & senzala (The Masters and the Slaves, 1933) popularized Franz Boas's anthropological concept of culture as an antidote to pessimistic race science. 18 July 1987), pivotal Brazilian cultural historian and essayist of the 1930s. ![]()
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