Cultural Identity and Labor Relations Among Gaucho Cowboys in Southern Brazil
by
Luciano Bornholdt
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2016
The gaucho is associated with everything in the state of Rio Grande do Sul. This Brazilian cowboy was made into a state icon, a symbol of regional identity. The figure of the gaucho —always the heroic gaucho of the past, never the poor ranch hand of the present— gained mythological proportions...