As raízes culturais do imigrante japonês: tradição e modernidade

Abstract

In this article, I would like to think about the culture that the Japanese immigrants brought with them to Brazil and about their role in the ways in which they inserted themselves in the country – with emphasis on an appreciation of education, present in Japan since at least the 16th century. For this, I discuss information brought by different authors about Japan - including 16th century Jesuits manuscripts, 19th and 20th century authors, and notedly, the anthropologists Claude Lévi-Strauss and Ruth Benedict. Rather than going into the specific conceptualization that such authors develop around notions such as "nature" and "culture", for example, by undertaking a reading that values certain elements of life in Japan, as captured by them, in order to constitute a panorama that allows to glimpse contributions introduced by the Japanese immigrants in Brazil.