![]() Having been influenced by the cultural anthropology of Franz Boas while studying as a postgraduate at Columbia University, Freyre sought to chart the melding and borrowing that had taken place in Brazil along cultural lines. However, he didn’t limit himself to discussions of culture and cultural mixing, making bold claims about the political and social significance of this mixing as well as its implications for Brazilian national identity. His most famous book, published as Casa Grande e Senzala (Big House and Slave Quarters) in Portuguese in 1933 and translated into English as The Masters and the Slaves in 1946, was the first in a trilogy also comprising The Mansions and the Shanties ( 1963) and Order and Progress ( 1970). ![]() Casa Grande e Senzala was written while lawyer and politician Getúlio Vargas sought to consolidate his presidency. ![]()
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