Valores da cultura popular no processo de modernização social do Brasil: Silvio Romero, Inglês de Sousa e Euclides da Cunha

Abstract

At the end o f the 19th century, as part o f a world-wide movement o f capitalist expansion and social uniform ness, Brazilian intellectuals compiled folkloric elements which were the expression o f the national difference. However, the valuing o f the technical rationality that underlies the industrial modernization makes the irrationality o f folklore be seen as an obstacle to the development o f the country. This is Inglês de Sousa's point o f view. Euclides da Cunha offered a distinct attitude, by trying, to interpret instead o f classifying the manifestations o f the popular culture.