Tradição e tradicionalismo gaúchos (Rio Grande do Sul/Brasil) sob olhares da hospitalidade: identidade em questão

Abstract

This doctoral research is based on the thesis that conceptual relations present in the triad "tradition - hospitality - identity" could question conceptions of identity that have been attributed to gaucho’s tradition and traditionalism, built primarily in a perspective of fixity and for which there would be historically dynamics of belonging still marked by relational deafness. Since 1947, the gaucho traditionalism has been delimiting sets of values, symbols and rituals that would be related to the gaucho tradition, having Rio Grande do Sul, in southern Brazil, as a territorial geographic reference. Certain social practices linked to gastronomy, rural activities, artistic manifestations, besides specific literature and historiography contribute to the exaltation of this tradition in Rio Grande do Sul and in other places where entities linked to traditionalism are founded. In this context, a research object woven into a complex network of links between the conceptual and empirical domains emerges, the latter relating to traditionalist entities and traditionalist subjects. Based on these reflections, the study is designed for its qualitative nature, with an essayistic design in form (textualization process - textual genre) and content (scientific reflection process) and with a multi-referential methodological approach. Transiting through/between theoretical assumptions from different areas of knowledge and through/between issues raised in the reflective course, it is sought to expand the analytical scope of the triad "tradition - hospitality - identity" present in the thesis initially built. Concepts that lead to the reflection that, in the studied context, belonging to identity construction would be based on an idea of sameness, that is, on an identity of the same. However, through theoretical approximations, possibilities are developed that envisage ruptures in identity crystallizations intended by the gaucho traditionalism, through hospitality relations, with the recognition of alterity in the constitution of subjects. As a result of the essay process, a rewriting of the thesis initially proposed takes shape, which would assume the following configuration: The recognition of the relational property of hospitality and the intrinsic relationship between identity, sameness and alterity call into question identity conceptions that have been attributed to gaucho’s tradition and traditionalism, promoting identity decrystallizations originating from and giving rise to from processes of transformation of territories/territorialities of this tradition into spaces of hospitality/welcoming, as well as originating from and giving rise to from resignifications of perceptions of belonging and community. Finally, it is considered that the contribution of this essay lies in the proposed articulation about the triad "tradition - hospitality - identity", once, under the prism of the transformations resulting from welcoming relationships, invariability intended by the gaucho's tradition and traditionalism were analyzed from another/new angle. [resumo fornecido pelo autor]