CONTRADIÇÕES CULTURAIS DO CORTEJO TRIUNFANTE DA MODERNIDADE EM CUIABÁ

Abstract

Starting of the analysis of Thesis VII of the Teses sobre o Conceito de História of Walter Benjamin, this article intends to understand the historical meaning of the conflicts about the locality as distinctive trace of the elites in the search of its identitary scene in the city of Cuiabá. The construction of this identity occurs through appropriation of cultural things of the society populations traditionally kept out of local scene and, recently, these populations has its used proper cultural manifestations as symbolic bedding of the local elites in its confrontation with the migrante.