Abstract:
Gilberto Freyre was one of the sociologists who tended to understand Brazil in its social, cultural and political formation through customs, practices and identities, based on everyday relationships, during the 1930s. There was an emphasis on what he called Lusotropicalism, with the aim of taking his analyzes to a level of analysis on a global scale of the way Portuguese positions itself in the world and its consequences in terms of social and cultural formation. In order to understand the intellectual bases sought by Freyre, the article examines its confluences with the theories of Angel Ganivet and António Sardinha as instruments to enable the Hispanic tradition as an alternative to the hegemonic modernity project of which Anglo-Saxon imperialism was representative.
Keywords:
Lusotropicalism; Hispanism; Appropriation