New Cultural History

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Published on: March 5, 2015

The call Cultural History is a new line of research that if it differs from dedicated History to study the arts, literature, the philosophy, must be faced as the New Cultural History, that do not discard the cultural expressions of the raised social classrooms, more prioritizes the historical construction from the manifestations of the anonymous masses, by what it is considered popular. The concern in portraying the existing conflicts and stratifications in the social classrooms exists in Nova Histria Cultural (NHC), through a plural history that presents alternative ways for the inquiry of the problem. Burke (1937), when writing on Cultural History affirms that it is difficult to choose the work subject, therefore in determined study on a social group, the NHC works with referring terms to the popular culture represented by the people, then appear questionings on who are really the people? What it is considered popular? Therefore, it is looked to work with the plurality, using itself of concepts as agricultural and urban, masculine and feminine, and so on. To work with the term culture, for Burke, is still a more difficult task of what to define ' ' popular' ' , therefore this term already was used to mention itself to the arts and sciences, later used in the description of popular manifestations, and finally, to assign social practical devices and. In the Anthropology the expressive concept meets tyloriano where culture is ' ' all complex that includes knowledge, belief, art, moral, law, customs and other aptitudes and habits acquired for the man as member of sociedade' '. It is certain that concepts for the term culture are multiple, however one in special assumes an excellent role in historiogrfico becoming: ' ' Believing, as Max Weber, that the man is a moored animal the teias of meanings that he himself weaveeed, assumes the culture as being these teias and its analysis; therefore, not as an experimental science in search of laws, but as a interpretativa science, to the search of the meanings.

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