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Brazil marked its centennial as an independent country in 1922.
Claiming Brazil explores how Brazilians from different walks of
life commemorated the event, and how this led to conflicting ideas
of national identity. Civic rituals hold enormous significance, and
Brazilian citizens, immigrants, and visitors employed them to
articulate and perform their sense of what Brazil was, stood for,
and could be. Gregg Bocketti argues that these celebrations, rather
than uniting the country, highlighted tensions between modernity
and tradition, over race and ethnicity, and between nation and
region. Further, the rituals contributed to the collapse of the
country’s social and political status quo and gave substance to
the debates and ideas that characterized Brazilian life in the
1920s and then under the transformative rule of Getúlio Vargas
(1930–1945). Now, at the bicentennial of Brazil’s independence,
which itself unfolds in a period of political crisis and economic
dislocation, and in the aftermath of several large civic events, it
is an opportune moment to consider how Brazilians used civic
rituals to engage with questions of identity, belonging, and
citizenship one hundred years ago.
In this cross-cutting cultural history, Gregg Bocketti traces the
origins of soccer in Brazil from its elitist, Eurocentric identity
as "football" at the end of the nineteenth century to its
subsequent mythologization as the specifically Brazilian "futebol,"
o jogo bonito (the beautiful game). Bocketti examines the sport and
its narratives, which usually depict soccer as having evolved from
a white elite pastime to an integral part of Brazil's national
identity known for its passion and creativity, and explains the
ways that the popular history of the game has obscured many of the
complexities and the continuities of the history of soccer and of
Brazil. Mining a rich trove of sources, including contemporary
sports journalism, archives of Brazilian soccer clubs, and British
ministry records, and looking in detail at soccer's effect on all
parts of Brazilian society, Bocketti shows how important the sport
is to an understanding of Brazilian nationalism and nation building
in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Although the popular history of Brazilian football narrates a story
of progress toward democracy and inclusion, it does not match the
actual historical record. Instead, football can be understood as an
invention of early twentieth century middle-class and wealthy
Brazilians who called themselves "sportsmen" and nationalists, and
used the sport as part of their larger campaigns to shape and
reshape the nation. In this cross-cutting cultural history, Gregg
Bocketti traces the origins of football in Brazil from its elitist,
Eurocentric identity as "foot-ball" at the end of the nineteenth
century to its subsequent mythologization as the specifically
Brazilian "futebol," o jogo bonito (the beautiful game). Bocketti
examines the popular depictions of the sport as having evolved from
a white elite pastime to an integral part of Brazil's national
identity known for its passion and creativity, and concludes that
these mythologized narratives have obscured many of the
complexities and the continuities of the history of football and of
Brazil. Mining a rich trove of sources, including contemporary
sports journalism, archives of Brazilian soccer clubs, and British
ministry records, and looking in detail at soccer's effect on all
parts of Brazilian society, Bocketti shows how important the sport
is to an understanding of Brazilian nationalism and nation building
in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Negotiating Identities in Modern Latin America explores some of the
ways in which people define their membership in groups and their
collective identity, as well as some of the challenges to the
definition and maintenance of that identity. This interdisciplinary
collection of essays, addressing such diverse topics as the history
of Brazilian football and the concept of masculinity in the Mexican
army, provides new insights into questions of identity in
nineteenth- and twentieth-century Latin America. The essays cover a
wide range of countries in the region, from Mexico to Argentina,
and analyze a variety of identity-bearing groups, from small-scale
communities to nations. Hendrik Kraay has gathered contributions
from historians and anthropologists. Their individual
methodological and theoretical approaches combine to paint a
picture of Latin American society that is both complex and
compelling. The chapters focus on the day-to-day construction of
identity among ordinary people, from American nationals living in
Peru to indigenous communities in Argentina. With Contributions By:
Gregg Bocketti Maria Eugenia Brockmann Dannenmaier Denise Fay Brown
Maria Cecilia Velasco e Cruz Julie Gibbings Louise Guenther Ronald
Harpelle Hendrik Kraay Jennifer Manthei Stephen Neufeld Marjorie M.
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