This article aims at analyzing the perspectives and actions of two Latin American intellectuals, in the years 1910 and 1920, concerning issues of nation and “popular culture”. On one hand, it refers to the Brazilian writer Monteiro Lobato, who idealized the “Saci” Enquiry developed by the newspaper O Estado de S. Paulo, in 1917, among its readers. On the other hand, to the Argentinean Juan P. Ramos, member of the National Council for Education during Hipólito Yrigoyen´s first government (1916-1922), and responsible for the so called “Encuesta Láinez” in 1921.
Enquiries; Folklore; Nation