Correspondências de cientistas sociais brasileiros para Jorge Dias: duas margens de uma interlocução transatlântica

Abstract

Letters from Brazilian social scientists to Jorge Dias: two margins of a transatlantic dialogue  The article focuses in letters written by Brazilian social scientists and intellectuals interested in folklore studies to the Portuguese anthropologist Jorge Dias. This correspondence raises questions about folklore studies and the development of anthropology in Brazil, showing parallels to Portuguese anthropology at the time. The analysis of the relationships established between Jorge Dias and Brazilian scholars is revealing of: how both Portuguese and Brazilian intellectuals looked for the Portuguese origins of Brazilian culture; the role of folk culture in the construction of an idea of nation in both sides of the Atlantic; the relations between social sciences and folklore studies.