The “(Re)portuguesecizing” through popular culture: From the 19th century to our days.

Abstract

The main objective was to investigate the evolution of popular culture, through ethnography and folklore, from the 19th century to our days, using a qualitative methodology reading specialists in physical and digital bibliography. The artistic “renaissance” (Jorge Custódio) associat with the historiographic interest and the discourses emerged in the late 19th and early 20th centuries related to a “portuguesecizing” in art, in a context of exaltation of art reflectanc a homeland identity, Portuguese renaissance in its relationship with the nation's heritage. Popular culture was removed from its space and inserted in urban and sophisticated contexts-the museum, the bourgeois home, the exhibition catalogue, revealing an “aristocratization of the ethnographic object” and culminating in its transformation into national art, serving political regimes (constitutional monarchy, 1st Republic, New State and post-April 25th period), reaching, today, a level of social transversality.