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This article aims to reconstruct the trajectory of Ronaldo Helal, one of the pioneers of the introduction of sports in the Communication and Social Sciences as academic fields. The reconstitution of his formative path and bibliographic production intend to demonstrate the milestones of the maturation of a method aimed at the identification of a nation's media narratives through collective sports such as professional football. Over the course of three decades, the author has been developing a methodology for analyzing journalistic discourses about the performance of the Brazilian National Team in the quadrennial FIFA tournaments, better known as World Cups. We thus argue that a differential of Helal's perspective on the construction of sports nationalism has been a continuous shift of his gaze when choosing foreign sources -- newspapers from Uruguay, Argentina and France -- to understand the relations of identity enunciated by printed media about Brazil and the supposed nature of Brazilian players. Such decentralization allows the researcher to unveil the construction of identity stereotypes, while also raising questions about the paradigm of the nation's "essence" in competitve international events. Finally, it is proposed that the ability to build an authorial work is also related to the concept of "travel as a vocation," mobilized by anthropologist Fernanda Peixoto to address a tradition of intellectuals who interpreted Brazil, thanks to a symbolic-spatial movement of approach and distancing, with the specular recognition of national otherness and differences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper presents an analysis of the configuration of cannibalism as a metaphor central to the development of political and artistic movements in the twentieth century of Brazil. Based on the presentation made in the "Manifesto cannibal" by Oswald de Andrade are analyzed dialogues and influences and nuances that emerged in both literary and musical performances. Also the paper highlights the role of cannibalism in the search for a national identity immersed in processes, which confronted divergent perspectives of thinking. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article examines the influences that European intellectual constructions exerted on the formulation of socio-political projects in Brazil in the nineteenth century. The analysis centers on Romanticism-based literary publications of mid-century, paying additional attention to the propositions advanced by the Positivism of the last quarter of the century. Even though nineteenth-century Brazil intellectuals saw Europe as the main source of influence for their own cultural projects, in Brazil the intellectual field was much less developed and members of local elites believed the future of their country depended on their direct involvement in leading the construction of an autonomous national identity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

At the middle of the twentieth century, between the forties and the fifties, especially after the Second World War, the endless debate concerning national identity was taken up again in Latin America with a new focus. Mass culture, especially popular music with ties to the music industry, was shaped by its great capacity to spreadshown through its assorted forms of production, circulation and consumption- as one of the main areas of dispute related to the question of what is considered to be national. During that period there were important debates in Brazil and Chile about the selection, preservation and perpetuation of a certain repertoire of popular urban music as being representative of national folk music. These debates, which are analyzed starting from discursive representations driven by the written press, in both the specialized academic and the large-circulation press, constitute the central focus of this article. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article discusses the relation between Brazilian and Argentinian national identity and the social construction of pathologies and diseases in the medical field in the early 20th century. It describes the scientific debate concerning the Chagas disease and the goiter condition and its relation to social and political life in Brazil and Argentina. It then discusses the forced isolation of Chagas and goiter patients, exploring the social aspects of Brazilian and Argentinian public health policies. Other subjects under discussion include the Insitituto Oswaldo Cruz (IOC), the spread of communicable diseases through the insect barbeiro, and government sanitation efforts.

This article discusses the political and identity mobilization of history in the process of independence of Brazil, considering that the formation of the State and the emergence of the nation in the Brazil are two dimensions articulated in the context of crisis and overcome the Ancient Regime Portuguese in America. More specifically, we intend to discuss the discursive mobilization of the recent historical experience in the periodic press published in Brazil between 1821 and 1822. The text is guided by the hypothesis, inspired by the theoretical assertions of R. Koselleck, that as a project of independence is crystallized, the "colonial past" tended to lose its regulatory powers to the present, while at the same time that there was an intense appreciation of the "recent past". It seeks to demonstrate how this element, among other factors, legitimized and guided, in terms of discourse and identity, the process of independence of Brazil. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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