Western boots, more commonly known as cowboy boots, have long been a part of the fashion industry. Umbanda is another highly syncretic religion with spiritist elements that began in Rio de Janeiro in the late 1920s and spread to urban areas throughout the country. With some thirty million followers today, Umbanda has been called the one true national religion of Brazil because it embraces elements of all three of the nation’s cultural traditions: African, European, and Indian. The easiest difference to tell between men’s jewelry and women’s jewelry is their look; women’s jewelry is feminine, vulnerable looking, cheerful, all characteristics that reflect how women basically should be. While men’s jewelry has stronger look. “Since the unfortunate date – 1652- to the presentI usually start in 1490 — we have been experiencing a process of acculturation. It is perhaps presumptuous to all it “acculturation” because this term implies a fusion of … Read the rest