Câmara Cascudo interprete do Brasil: Portraits of a brazilian diet

• Autor(a) principal: Brandão, Ivone Agra
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Outros Autores: Cristovam, Francisca Kelly Gomes, Araújo, Maria Jucineide, Santana, Ajanayr Michelly Sobral, Pê, Simone Zeferino, Dantas , Dina Mara Pinheiro
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Research, Society and Development
• Texto Completo: https://rsdjournal.org/index.php/rsd/article/view/10424
• topic: A História da alimentação do Brasil; Luís da Câmara Cascudo; Pensamento do Brasil.; A Historia de la alimentación en Brasil; Luís da Câmara Cascudo; Pensamiento del Brasil.; The history of food in Brazil; Luís da Câmara Cascudo; Thought of Brazil.

This article aims to comprehend Câmara Cascudo as one of the thinkers who contributed to the realization of a reading on the Thought of Brazil. For this understanding, we took as a base of investigation his book History of Food in Brazil, which is a peculiar production present in the corpus of his work, he sought in Brazilian culinary ways to think about a cultural heritage inherited from the three ethnicities that integrated and gave rise to the country's racial composition It is a careful investigation, through a historical bias, with the objective of "showing the antiquity" of food predilections, with a focus on returning to the origins of the three ethnicities that form Brazil, giving the work a tone of nationality study. Cascudo intended to seek the “roots” of the formation of our nationality from a theme present intensely in Brazilian society which is the composition of the diet Brazilian food, following a detailed investigation present in the long centuries of mixing of the races creator of Brazil, studying the changes that have been passed over time. Therefore, it is a book that works with nationality, seeking in the dietary formation of the Brazilian people what resembles us and what differs from the nations of origin, whose source of research is the popular food, and for her the author stressed the potential of the national taste, enabling the debates on ethnicity, colonization and cultural heritage.