Table of Contents: “…The change in the social landscape of patriarchal Brazil during the Eighteenth Century and the first half of the Nineteenth -- The plantation and the square : the horse and the street -- Fathers and sons -- Woman and man -- The mansion and the shanty -- Further considerations on mansions and shanties -- Brazilians and Europeans -- Race, class, and region -- Orient and occident -- Slave, animal, and machine -- The rise of the college graduate and the mulatto -- Reflections on miscegenation in patriarchal and semi-patriarchal Brazil.…”