Abstract
The sport rodeo comes more specifi cally if developing of surprising form in the Brazilian territory and in the interior of the State of Sao Paulo, deserving attention in the sport and cultural scope. The present study had for objective to verify if the rodeo can be considered a sportive manifestation of cultural identity of the country of Sao Paulo. The type of study was characterized as a descriptive, qualitative research that it raised the main characteristics of structure of the rodeo and searched the deepening of the concept of cultural identity, making possible the construction of four (4) extracted references of three great culturalist authors: Stuart Hall (Construction Discursive and Feeling of Belong); Benedict Anderson (Imagined Communities) and Eric Hobsbawm (Invented Tradition). The sample was selected amongst the practitioners of rodeo and university professors, in a twelve total (12) interviewed. The instrument of collection of data was the structuralized interview type, effected through questionnaire. The result of the answers gotten in the questionnaire found characteristics of the four (4) references in the rodeo; indicating that the same a sportive mani- festation of cultural identity of the country of Sao Paulo can be considered.
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