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Describes the geography, history, government, economy, people, lifestyle, religion, language, arts, leisure, festivals, and food of the smallest country in South America. ... Read more

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Uruguay (Culture of the World)
This a a book of breath but no particular depth. It is written in a prose that is slightly stiff,but it is filled with facts that the casual tourist may find useful.

An invented book
I am Uruguayan, and I bought this "piece of thing" to give it as a present to one of my friends, I didn't know what I was buying but lies, and uncertain things. Starting; some of the education facts are wrong, then with the society and lifestyles, Uruguay is the only, ONLY country in the world where I've seen that blacks, mestizos, european descendants and others can sit and dialogue for ever racism doesn't exsist at all. more than 50% of women in uruguay are professionals. Families don't choose to send the boys to get schooling more than the girls, that's not true!
Then in the "Return to Democracy" the last paragraph is just a whole lie, I don't know who would write all that.
Then the Language section is just another piece of SH-IT, if this writer would know a little more about the Spanish spoken in Uruguay, I believe the "A simple guide to Spanish pronounciation" on page 82 and 83 wouldn't appear like that. Uruguayans pronounce the "Ll" as "zh" or "sh" when it has a vowel after it, the same sound the "Y" has when it's followed by a vowel. I think she has a very big confusion, because not even Spanish people pronounce some letters like that, maybe when she was pasting the pages together they got mixed up and put this two pages in this book, instead of putting it in the Mexican book of cultures of the world, or should we call it "Cultures of Leslie Jermyn's head," I think the author didn't get the right information, Why you didn't ask the Uruguayan goverment for some help? 'cause Robert Buckman, Elizabeth Coastworth, John Fisher, Rex A. Hudson, Marrion Morrison, Richard Tames and the other authors you list in your Bibliography are not Uruguayans, and I bet they haven't gone there, and if they have, they've gonesomewhere else confusing that place with uruguay, like what "happened" to Italian immigrants in the 19th Century when they confused Uruguay for Argentina and vice-versa. Maybe they went to some Island in the Caribbean, or to the coast of South-Africa. I think this book is a BIG BOLASO, DON'T BUY a PIeCE OF PAPER LIKE THIS ONE, GET THE "MI TIERRA URUGUAY" OR "MI HISTORIA URUGUAY" TRUE BOOKS ABOUT URUGUAYAN SOCIETY, GEOGRAPHY, HISTORY, CULTURE, VALUES, LANGUAGE, GOVERNMENT, etc...

Actually, a very good book
I read a review on this page and bought every book that was available.I disagree that the other books are any better, and I also disagree this book is full of innacuracies.There might be some.I did not see any.Perhaps others are so biases toward this beautiful little country that they cannot accept seeing a car with a little rust in page 63.Every page and picture (and there are tons of them) reminds me of all the color and character of my dear Uruguay.This book is a great book to have at home.

Unevenly written, lots of inaccuracies
I awaited the publication of this book with much anticipation. I am Uruguayan and when my American friends ask me about my country I am always delighted to talk about it and tell them about the books on Uruguay that are available in English.

When I read this book I didn't know whether to laugh or cry. It is full of mistakes of every kind. Some are obvious typographical errors, some are misspellings (words given in Spanish are misspelled, misinterpreted, or mistranslated). There are cases of photographs that have the wrong caption. There are contradictions in the text. Some historical facts are wrong. There are gross misrepresentations of what Uruguay is about. The names of people, animals, places, and things are wrong in many instances. There are some important omissions. The two recipes given at the end are simply laughable. The bibliography given is extremely scant. The book is full of blunders ("disparates," "ridiculeces," "barbaridades," "barrabasadas," and plain old "bolazos," as we say in Uruguay) that detract from otherwise well written and informative segments.

This book so disappointed me that I cannot possibly recommend it to anybody. If anyone wants to know something about Uruguay I suggest you ignore this book. I would recommend (in chronological order): Marion Morrison's "Uruguay (Enchantment of the World)" (1992); Nathan Haverstock's "Uruguay in Pictures (Visual Geography Series)" (1987); Allan Carpenter's "Uruguay (Enchantment of South America)" (1969); and Lavinia Dobler's "The Land and People of Uruguay" (1965). None of these books is perfect. They all contain some mistakes, but the information in them is, for the most part, accurate. The Morrison and the Haverstock books are still available. The two older titles are occasionally available as used books.

One title that I highly recommend is Tessa Bridal's "The Tree of Red Stars." It is a novel that takes place in Uruguay. (It is not intended for children.) The author is Uruguayan, so she knows what she is saying when she writes about Uruguay. Bridal's book contains the best depiction of life in Uruguay I have ever read in English. ... Read more

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The murgas are troupes of performers, musicians, writers, and creators who, during Montevideo's Carnival, perform on the tablados, temporary stages built in the neighborhoods of Uruguay's capital city each year. Throughout the period of Uruguay's subjection to a brutal dictatorship and in the following era of "democratization," the murgas, envisioned originally as popular theater, were transformed into a symbol of social resistance, celebrated by many and perceived by others as menacing and subversive.

Focusing on the cultural practices of the lower classes and more specifically on the processes and productions of the murgas, Gustavo Remedi's Carnival Theater is a deeply thoughtful consideration of Uruguayan society's identity crisis and subsequent redefinition in the wake of the authoritarian-bureaucratic-technocratic regimes of the 1960s. A revealing work of cultural criticism, the book proposes a new set of criteria for the interpretation and critique of national culture.

Gustavo Remedi is assistant professor in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, Trinity College.

Amy Ferlazzo teaches at Meredith College in Raleigh, North Carolina. ... Read more

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Uruguay has recently come to the attention to global strategic planners.This report puts these executives on the fast track.Ten chapters provide: an overview of how to strategically access this important market, a discussion on economic fundamentals, marketing & distribution options, export and direct investment options, and full risk assessments (political, cultural, legal, human resources).Ample statistical benchmarks and comparative graphs are given. ... Read more

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Title: EL MATE: UNA LARGA HISTORIA.(cultura popular, Uruguay)(TT: Mate: a long history.)(TA: popular culture, Uruguay)(Artículo Breve)
Author: Rubén Loza Aguerrebere
Publication: Epoca (Magazine/Journal)
Date: February 1, 2002
Publisher: Difusora de Informacion Periodica, S.A. (DINPESA)
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A number of Uruguayan artists have become influential since the 19th century. Well-known Uruguayan painters include realists such as Juan Manuel Blanes, constructivists such as Joaquín Torres García, nativists like Carlos María Herrera, post-impressionists such as Pedro Figari and Felipe Seade, abstract artists such as Carlos Páez Vilaró, and numerous others. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Countries and Their Cultures, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 2052 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.Covers the broad range of popular religious culture of the United States at the close of the twentieth century. Beliefs, practices, symbols, traditions, movements, organizations, and leaders from the many traditions in the pluralistic American community are represented. Also includes cults and phenomena that drew followers, such as Heaven's Gale and UFOs. ... Read more

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On the demand side, exporters and strategic planners focusing on human blood, prepared animal blood, toxins, cultures of micro-organisms, and similar products excluding yeasts in Uruguay face a number of questions. Which countries are supplying human blood, prepared animal blood, toxins, cultures of micro-organisms, and similar products excluding yeasts to Uruguay? How important is Uruguay compared to others in terms of the entire global and regional market? How much do the imports of human blood, prepared animal blood, toxins, cultures of micro-organisms, and similar products excluding yeasts vary from one country of origin to another in Uruguay? On the supply side, Uruguay also exports human blood, prepared animal blood, toxins, cultures of micro-organisms, and similar products excluding yeasts. Which countries receive the most exports from Uruguay? How are these exports concentrated across buyers? What is the value of these exports and which countries are the largest buyers?

This report was created for strategic planners, international marketing executives and import/export managers who are concerned with the market for human blood, prepared animal blood, toxins, cultures of micro-organisms, and similar products excluding yeasts in Uruguay. With the globalization of this market, managers can no longer be contented with a local view. Nor can managers be contented with out-of-date statistics which appear several years after the fact. I have developed a methodology, based on macroeconomic and trade models, to estimate the market for human blood, prepared animal blood, toxins, cultures of micro-organisms, and similar products excluding yeasts for those countries serving Uruguay via exports, or supplying from Uruguay via imports. It does so for the current year based on a variety of key historical indicators and econometric models.

In what follows, Chapter 2 begins by summarizing where Uruguay fits into the world market for imported and exported human blood, prepared animal blood, toxins, cultures of micro-organisms, and similar products excluding yeasts. The total level of imports and exports on a worldwide basis, and those for Uruguay in particular, is estimated using a model which aggregates across over 150 key country markets and projects these to the current year. From there, each country represents a percent of the world market. This market is served from a number of competitive countries of origin. Based on both demand- and supply-side dynamics, market shares by country of origin are then calculated across each country market destination. These shares lead to a volume of import and export values for each country and are aggregated to regional and world totals. In doing so, we are able to obtain maximum likelihood estimates of both the value of each market and the share that Uruguay is likely to receive this year. From these figures, rankings are calculated to allow managers to prioritize Uruguay compared to other major country markets. In this way, all the figures provided in this report are forecasts that can be combined with internal information sources for strategic planning purposes. ... Read more

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Chapters: Julio María Sanguinetti, José Batlle Y Ordóñez, Baltasar Brum, List of Ministers of Education and Culture, Gabriel Terra, Juan Lindolfo Cuestas, José Serrato, Eduardo Víctor Haedo, Francisco Forteza, Eduardo Blanco Acevedo, Luis Hierro Gambardella. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 46. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Julio María Sanguinetti Coirolo (b. 6 January 1936, Montevideo, Uruguay) is a Uruguayan politician and journalist, as well as a former President of Uruguay (from March 1985 until March 1990, and, again, from March 1995 until March 2000) for the Partido Colorado. A lawyer and journalist by profession, he was born into a middle-class family of Italian origin. He studied Law and Social Sciences at the University of Montevideo. He received his law degree in 1961, and later combined his legal practice with work as a journalist. He had already been writing for the press, first in the weekly Canelones and later, since 1955, as a columnist for Acción, a newspaper established by the then-President, Luis Batlle, for which he covered events such as the Cuban Revolution (1959) and carried on until the 1970s. Both means of communication were connected to the Colorado Political Party (Partido Colorado - PC), the historical liberal grouping where progressive and conservative sensitivities shared ground (a mixture of doctrines and styles that was frequently an obstacle to classifying it according to ideology) and which had as its rival the experienced National Party (PN) or Blancos ("Whites"), creating a 2-party system that dominated Uruguayan politics during its history, although on most occasions the governing force was the PC. In 1963, when he was 27 years old, Sanguinetti became a member of the national parliament representing part of Montevideo for the Partido Colorado ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=726159 ... Read more

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Chapters: Education and Culture Ministers of Uruguay, Foreign Ministers of Uruguay, Interior Ministers of Uruguay, Mayors of Places in Uruguay, Members of the Uruguayan Chamber of Deputies, Ministers for Public Health of Uruguay, Ministers of Economics and Finance of Uruguay, Ministers of Livestock, Agriculture, and Fisheries of Uruguay, Ministers of Transport and Public Works of Uruguay, Ministers of Work and Social Security of Uruguay, Presidents of the Uruguayan Chamber of Deputies, Presidents of the Uruguayan Senate, Uruguayan Senators, Julio María Sanguinetti, José Mujica, Jorge Batlle Ibáñez, List of Foreign Ministers of Uruguay, Juan María Bordaberry, Enrique V. Iglesias, José Batlle Y Ordóñez, Emilio Frugoni, Baltasar Brum, List of Ministers of Education and Culture, List of Ministers of Work and Social Security, Julio Herrera Y Obes, List of Ministers of the Interior, Gabriel Terra, List of Ministers of Economics and Finance, List of Ministers of Livestock, Agriculture, and Fisheries, Alberto Demicheli, Jorge Sapelli, Gonzalo Fernández, Danilo Astori, Zelmar Michelini, Fructuoso Rivera, Juan Lindolfo Cuestas, Rafael Michelini, Claudio Williman, Alberto Abdala, Duncan Stewart, Aparicio Méndez, Benito Medero, Reinaldo Gargano, Luis Alberto Lacalle Pou, Alberto Guani, Guillermo Stirling, Daisy Tourné, List of Ministers of Transport and Public Works, Ricardo Ehrlich, Juan Campisteguy, César Charlone, José Serrato, Juan Antonio Lavalleja, Juan Domínguez, Hugo Fernández Faingold, Manuel Flores Mora, List of Ministers for Public Health, Juan Andrés Ramírez, Didier Opertti, Mario Héber Usher, Feliciano Viera, Alberto Fermín Zubiría, Diana Saravia Olmos, Jorge Sanguinetti, Eduardo Jiménez de Aréchaga, Luis Eduardo Pérez, Eduardo Víctor Haedo, Alejandro Zorrilla de San Martín, Juan Carlos Blanco Estradé, Francisco Forteza, Juan Carlos Blanco Fernández, Daniel Díaz Maynard, Luis Alberto Héber, Juan Carlos Blanco Acevedo, Eduardo Blanco Acevedo, Ledo Arroyo Torre... ... Read more

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Chapters: Education and Culture Ministers of Uruguay, Foreign Ministers of Uruguay, Interior Ministers of Uruguay, Ministers for Public Health of Uruguay, Ministers of Economics and Finance of Uruguay, Ministers of Livestock, Agriculture, and Fisheries of Uruguay, Ministers of Transport and Public Works of Uruguay, Ministers of Work and Social Security of Uruguay, Julio María Sanguinetti, José Mujica, List of Foreign Ministers of Uruguay, Juan María Bordaberry, Enrique V. Iglesias, José Batlle Y Ordóñez, Baltasar Brum, List of Ministers of Education and Culture, List of Ministers of Work and Social Security, Julio Herrera Y Obes, List of Ministers of the Interior, Gabriel Terra, List of Ministers of Economics and Finance, List of Ministers of Livestock, Agriculture, and Fisheries, Alberto Demicheli, Jorge Sapelli, Gonzalo Fernández, Danilo Astori, Fructuoso Rivera, Juan Lindolfo Cuestas, Alberto Abdala, Duncan Stewart, Aparicio Méndez, Benito Medero, Reinaldo Gargano, Alberto Guani, Guillermo Stirling, Daisy Tourné, List of Ministers of Transport and Public Works, Juan Campisteguy, César Charlone, José Serrato, Juan Antonio Lavalleja, Hugo Fernández Faingold, Manuel Flores Mora, List of Ministers for Public Health, Juan Andrés Ramírez, Didier Opertti, Feliciano Viera, Alberto Fermín Zubiría, Jorge Sanguinetti, Eduardo Jiménez de Aréchaga, Eduardo Víctor Haedo, Alejandro Zorrilla de San Martín, Juan Carlos Blanco Estradé, Francisco Forteza, Juan Carlos Blanco Fernández, Juan Carlos Blanco Acevedo, Eduardo Blanco Acevedo, José Eugenio Ellauri, Héctor Grauert, Luis Hierro Gambardella, Alejandro Végh Villegas, Carlos Végh Garzón, Joaquín Suárez, José Longinos Ellauri. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 164. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Julio María Sanguinetti Coirolo (b. 6 January 19...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=726159 ... Read more

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Culture de L'uruguay, Cinéma Uruguayen, No Te Va Gustar, Murga, Museo Nacional de Historia Natural Y Antropología, Compagnie D'ailleurs, Sol de Mayo. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : La culture de l'Uruguay est dominée par les traditions européennes et en particulier par la culture espagnole, puisqu'il s'agit du pays colonisateur, et italienne à cause des nombreuses vagues d'immigration venant de ce pays. Étonnamment, la culture amérindienne n'y joue aucun rôle : les anciens peuples étant décimés, leurs cultures ont disparu avec. L'Uruguay a également été influencé par ses voisins comme l'Argentine, notamment dans les domaines de la musique et des danses folkloriques. L'espagnol est la langue officielle du pays mais il existe aussi et le portuñol qui est un mélange d'espagnol et de portugais, parlé à la frontière brésilienne, mais très minoritaire. Un certain nombre d'uruguayens comprennent aussi l'italien et le français à cause des nombreuses vagues d'immigration venant de ces pays. L'Uruguay a l'un des taux d'alphabétisation les plus élevés d'Amérique du Sud avec 98%. Ceci s'explique par la scolarisation obligatoire pendant neuf ans. Entre 6 ans et 12 ans, les élèves vont à l'école primaire, puis de 12 à 15 ans, ils vont dans les collèges (secondaire élémentaire) et si les élèves ont de bons résultats aux examens nationaux, ils ont le droit d'entrer dans une école secondaire « diversifiée » pour pouvoir obtenir le bachillerato (baccalauréat) qui permet d'accéder à l'université. Ils peuvent aussi entrer dans le secteur secondaire technique en vue d'obtenir le bachillerato tecnico. L'éducation national fut mis en place en 1877 par José Pedro Varela avec le décret de loi de l'Éducation Commune. P...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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Chapters: International Rankings of Uruguay, List of Ministers of Education and Culture, Ceibal Project, Universidad Católica Del Uruguay Dámaso Antonio Larrañaga, List of Universities in Uruguay. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 30. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The following are international rankings of Uruguay. Steaming yerba mate infusion in its customary gourd, the Uruguayan national drink Relief map of Uruguay Uruguay's former president Tabare Vazquez Uruguay's oldest church in San Carlos, Maldonado GDP per capita 60 highest, at I$11,969Human Development Index 46 high, at 0.852Income Equality, 0.449 (Gini Index)Literacy Rate 51, at 97.7%Unemployment rate 112, at 8.70% Fertility rate- 140 most fertile, at 1.85 per womanBirth rate 157 most births, at 13.91 per 1000 peopleInfant mortality 128 most deaths, at 1 per 1000 live birthsDeath rate 84 highest death rate, at 9.16 per 1000 peopleLife Expectancy 47 highest, at 76.4 yearsSuicide Rate 24 highest suicide rate, at 15.1 for males and 6.4 for females per 100,000 peopleHIV/AIDS rate 108 most cases, at 0.30% Worldwide ranking among countries evaluated. Ranking among the 20 Latin American countries (Puerto Rico is not included). Ranking among 108 developing countries with available data only. Ranking among 71 developing countries with available data only. Countries in the sample surveyed between 1990 and 2005. Refers to population below income poverty line as defined by the World Bank's $2 per day indicator Because the Gini coefficient used for the ranking corresponds to different years depending of the country, and the underlying household surveys differ in method and in the type of data collected, the distribution data are not strictly comparable across countries. The ranking therefore is only a proxy for reference purposes...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=19948664 ... Read more

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Chapters: List of Foreign Ministers of Uruguay, List of Ministers of Education and Culture, List of Ministers of Work and Social Security, Senate of Uruguay, List of Ministers of the Interior, List of Ministers of Economics and Finance, List of Ministers of Livestock, Agriculture, and Fisheries, List of Ministers of Transport and Public Works, List of Ministers for Public Health, Cabinet of Uruguay, Jorge Orrico, Uruguay Assembly, Uruguayan Passport, Chamber of Deputies of Uruguay, National Library of Uruguay, Banco de La República Oriental Del Uruguay. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 48. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Uruguay Assembly (Asamblea Uruguay) is a social-democratic political party in Uruguay. It is a member organisation of the ruling Broad Front. Its leader is the senator and former minister of economy of Uruguay, Danilo Astori. Nowadays it form part of Liber Seregni Front. Uruguay Assembly was founded in 1994 by Danilo Astori. It is part of the left-leaning Broad Front coalition but is considered more of a centrist party. Jota21: Jóvenes Organizados Trabajando en Asamblea (Organised Youth Working in Assembly) is the youth sector of Asamblea Uruguay. ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=21190936 ... Read more

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Title: Remedi, Gustavo. Carnival Theatre; Uruguay's Performers and National Culture.(Reseña de libro)
Author: Isabel Sans
Publication: Chasqui (Magazine/Journal)
Date: May 1, 2005
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 34Issue: 1Page: 209(3)

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This digital document is an article from Siempre!, published by Edicional Siempre on July 24, 2002. The length of the article is 1665 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Felisberto Hernández (1902-1964): atisbos. (La Cultura en México).(escritor; Uruguay)(TT: Felisberto Hernández (1902-1964). profile (Culture in Mexico).)(TA: writer, Uruguay)
Author: Mauricio Molina
Publication: Siempre! (Refereed)
Date: July 24, 2002
Publisher: Edicional Siempre
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Brazil's first World Cup win since 1970 in the United States this year, promoted widespread interest in international fooball and the Latin-American game. This book combines social history and reportage to explore the place of the world's most popular game in the life of Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay. The book examines the historical and political role of football on an international level, from colonial times to the present, up to and including the controversial Argentina appearance in the World Cup Final of 1990. It reveals how various dictators have used the game to ensure political passivity, and considers whether the game is declining in importance in Latin America, both as a spectator and a participatory sport. Tony Mason is the author of "Sport in Britain: A Social History" and "Association Football and English Society". ... Read more