Gilberto Freyre and Roger Bastide on the intimate East in Brazil: acculturation or transculturation?

Abstract

The comparison of the works on the Brazilian East and Islam by Gilberto Freyre and Roger Bastide, friends and collaborators, allows us to consider problems such as acculturation and transculturation between Africa and America. In this text, other figures of his time emerge such as Mariátegui, Arguedas, Fernando Ortiz, Malinowski. In all of them there is anti-racism, vindication of miscegenation, and sympathy, via the Iberian Peninsula, of the "Orient".