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| Introduction | |
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| The Brazilian People: Products of Their Past | |
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| Altruistic, Sentimental, and Generous | |
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| A Wealth of Incalculable Spiritual Attributes | |
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| The Colonial Era (1500-1822): A Patriarchal and Hierarchical Society | |
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| Essay on Sadness | |
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| The Brazilian El Dorado | |
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| Circumventing Legal but Unrealistic Obligations | |
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| The Portuguese Heritage: Adaptability | |
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| The Empire (1822-1889): No Real Rupture with the Past | |
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| Jose Dias: Cultural Symbol | |
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| A Master-Slave Relationship | |
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| The Depraved Man | |
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| Self-Interest, Carried to Excess | |
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| An Extremely Lively Imagination | |
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| A Worthy Subject for a Popular History | |
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| Long-Standing Differences of Color, Position, and Wealth | |
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| This Universal Love of Trade | |
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| Lighthearted, Quick-Witted, Communicative, and Hospitable | |
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| The Education of Men and Women | |
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| The Evils of Slavery | |
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| The Republic (1889-1964): Movement toward Modernization | |
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| New World in the Tropics | |
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| The "Whitening" Ideal | |
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| The Man of the Backlands | |
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| A Mutual Accommodation from Highest to Humblest | |
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| Affable, Solicitous, and Articulate | |
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| Liveliness of Spirit | |
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| The Cordial Man | |
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| A Passion for the Lottery | |
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| Courtesy Mixed with Distrust | |
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| The Quiet, Simple, Self-Reliant Caboclo | |
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| Subjective, Unpredictable, and Capricious | |
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| In the Backlands, Dreaming of the City | |
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| The Usual Moderation | |
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| Find a Way Around | |
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| The Military Period and After (1964-Present): Another Boom-and-Bust Cycle | |
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| Do You Know Who You're Talking To?! | |
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| Bypassing the System | |
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| A Most Personal People | |
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| The Persistent Patronage System | |
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| The Social Functions of Futebol | |
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| An Obsession with Whiteness and Blackness | |
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| Brazil in the World | |
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| Three Sad Races | |
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| Behaving Brazilian | |
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| The Patrimonial State | |
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| Living Avidly in the Present | |
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| Vera: A Woman Speaks | |
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| The Everyday Violence of Life | |
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| Suggested Readings | |