Fifty Years of Research on Brazil

This book is a photographic journey of fifty years of research on Brazil and
its folk-popular poetry, the literatura de cordel. The photos taken by the
author over these fifty years are divided into three parts: 1. The poets and
the printers of cordel 2.The intellectuals, informants and friends associated
with the research and 3. The fairs, markets and scenes of folklore related to
the research. Each photo, when applicable, is followed by a description of
the scene or person. This archive includes many persons and scenes that are
no longer present in Brazil thus documenting the reality of those times. The
book is a companion book to the complete story of the story-poems and their
authors seen in his recent Portrait of Brazil in the Twentieth Century - the
Universe of the Literatura de Cordel.