ASSOCIAÇÕES DE REMADORES TEUTO-BRASILEIROS EM PORTO ALEGRE (1917): RECOMPOSIÇÕES IDENTITÁRIAS EM UM CONFLITO BÉLICO.

This study aims to interpret recompositions of identities in German Brazilian rowing associations in Porto Alegre, mainly in 1917, while a bellicose conflict. To the corpus documental, were used minutes from rowing clubs and informations from the newspaper A Federação. The sources revealed that, until 1917, in these rowing associations, spaces of leisure and sociability for German Brazilians, were cultivated practices and representations of German Brazilian cultural identities, for example, like the use of German Language. When Brazil inserted into First World War (1914-1918), these associations were pressed to the "abrasileiramento", occurring identity negotiations on the sport scene. The adoption of the Portuguese language in the internal communication and also in the original name of the associations are examples of changes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]