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Social Life & Customs

Effective family research requires some understanding of the society your ancestor lived in. Learning about everyday life, religious practices, customs, and traditions will help you appreciate your ancestor and the time he or she lived in. This information is particularly helpful if you choose to write a history of your family. Research procedures and genealogical sources are different for each area and time period and are affected by the local customs and traditions.

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• Family and Frontier in Colonial Brazil: Families of Planters
• Brazilian Culture - TOTA, gives general information about Brazilian Culture

Publications

Topic	Time period	Resource	Locations Covered
Urban life	1900s to 1920s|	Bruce, George James. Brazil and the Brazilians. Dodd, Mead and Company, 1914.	Brazil
History, colonization	16th to 19th centuries	Bell, Alured Gray. The Beautiful Rio de Janeiro. William Heinemann, 1914.	Rio de Janeiro
Government, leadership, holidays, upper-class life	1880s	Andrews, C. C. Brazil: Its Condition and Prospects. D. Appleton and Company, 1887.	Rio de Janeiro
Description and analysis of social, cultural and economic life in Brazil		Besselaar, J. J. van den. Brasilien: Anspruch und Wirklichkeit. Wiesbaden, Germany: F.A. Brockhaus, 1970	Brazil
Indigenous marriage customs and the Catholic Church in colonial Brazil		Londoño, Fernando Torres. El concubinato y la iglesia en el Brasil colonial. São Paulo, Brazil : Universidade de São Paulo, CEDHAL, 1988	Brazil
History, Social life and customs		Macedo, Roberto. Curiosidades cariocas. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil : Distribuidora Record, 1965	Brazil
Slavery and bondage, Social life and customs		Lara, Silvia Hunold. Escravidão. São Paulo, Brazil: Ed. ANPUH/Marco Zero, 1988	Brazil
History, religious history, Social life and customs	18th, 19th centuries	Guedes, Roberto; Fragoso, João; Ribeiro, Luís; Graça, Filho; de Alencastro, Afonso. História social em registros paroquiais : (Sul-Sudeste do Brasil, séculos XVIII-XIX). Rio de Janeiro, Brazil : Mauad X, 2016	Brazil
Trade, potitics and government, social life and customs	Modern	Weil, Thomas E. Area handbook for Brazil. Washington, D.C.: Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Office, 1971	Brazil
Life and Customs of the People	1900	Carpenter, Frank George. 'South America, social, industrial, and political. Western W Wilson, 1900	Brazil
Customs and Culture	Modern	Branco, Sandra; Williams, Rob. Brazil - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture. Kuperard, 2014	Brazil
Culture and Life	Modern	Poelzl, Volker. CultureShock! Brazil: A Survival Guide to Customs and Etiquette. Marshall Cavendish, New York, 2009	Brazil
Culture and Life	Modern	Vincent, Jon S.; Woodyard, George. Culture and Customs of Brazil. Greenwood Publishing Group, 2003	Brazil
Women, family, social change	1600-1900	Nazzari, M. Disappearance of the Dowry: Women, Families, and Social Change in Sã o Paulo, Brazil, 1600-1900. Stanford University Press, 1991	San Paulo, Brazil
Social life and customs	19th Century	Freyre, Gilberto. Social Life in Brazil in the Middle of the Nineteenth Century. Duke University Press, 1922	Brazil
Ten Disciples including art, food, music	Modern	Chiodetto, Eder; Chagas, Carolina; Brant, Maria Abramo Caldeira. Brazil. London: Phaidon Press Inc, 2014	Brazil
Travel, history, Social life and customs	Modern	Fletcher, James C.; Kidder, Daniel P. Brazil and the Brazilians. London; New York: Kegan Paul, 2005	Brazil
Travel, history, Social life and customs	1940	Brown, Rose. The land and people of Brazil. Philadelphia, New York, J.B. Lippincott Co., 1946	Brazil
Travel, history, Social life and customs	19th Century	Ewbank, Thomas. Life in Brazil; or, A journal of a visit to the land of the cocoa and the palm. Detroit, Mich., Blaine Ethridge--Books, 1971	Brazil
Survival in Santana de Parnaíba, Brazil		Metcalf, Alida Christine. Families of Planters, Peasants, and Slaves: Strategies for Survival in Santana de Parnaíba, Brazil, 1720–1820. Ann Arbor, Michigan: University Microfilms International, 1983	Santana de Parnaíba, Brazil
Traditions of São Paulo		Marques, Gabriel. Ruas e tradições de São Paulo: Uma história em cada rua (Streets and Traditions of São Paulo: A story in every street). São Paulo: Conselho Estadual de Cultura, 1966	São Paulo
Culture and Society in Rio de Janeiro		Silva, Maria Beatriz Nizza da. Cultura e Sociedade no Rio de Janeiro (1808–1821) (, 1808–1821). São Paulo: Nacional, 1977.	Rio de Janeiro