This article reports the results of an ethnographic study on the impact of television viewing in the Brazilian Amazon. In the fall of 1996, the researcher spent three months doing field work in the community of Sao Joao de Pirabas. The narrative account that follows tries to answer these questions: What has been the role of television in the way that rural Brazilian communities construct their own interpretation of reality? And what kinds of cultural changes (if any) can be attributed to systematic and pervasive television viewing?
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Raúl Reis (1998) studied this question.
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