Concepts of culture and languages in historiography: an interdisciplinary debate

• Main Author: Fabio Feltrin de Souza
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina 2015-12-01
• Series: INTERthesis
• Subjects: Nova História Cultural; Estudos Culturais; Cultura; Linguagens; Interdisciplinaridade
• Online Access: https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/interthesis/article/view/38071

This article aims to problematize the notions of culture and languages in the interior of contemporary historiography, from an interdisciplinary approach. For that reason, two moments are proposed: first, by analyzing the appropriation of the concept of culture operated by the New Cultural History, identifying its limits and weights; secondly, by proposing a possible path to the debate in the core of humanities from the notion of languages collected in cultural and post-structuralism studies. Finally, it is recognized the importance of structuralistic and economistic models in the mid-twentieth century, but it is evaluated that the New Cultural History seems to have the most appropriate tools to analyze the problems emerged in the contemporary age.