The article is based on the book A parte e o todo: a diversidade cultural no Brasil-nação where Oliven (2006) in the chapter entitled "Em busca do tempo perdido: o Movimento Tradicionalista Gaúcho" discusses their historical constitution and anthropological dimensions. When also emphasize your mythical character invention of gaucho traditions by traditionalists as a differentiator in this production of regional identities, in relation to Brazil aims to engage with the author's analysis, and the field opened by Hobsbawm and Ranger (1984). Presents its developments by analyzing the Encontro de Artes e Tradição Gaúcha, focusing on the new dynamics found by traditionalists for its expansion as a cultural movement. The Enart is presented here through a parallel between ethnographic data of editions 2001 and 2012. The event, at the 27th editing is an art competition traditionalist major happens in three phases, each year. Their final phase, which reaches mega proportions, occurs in November in the city of Santa Cruz do Sul. Meets amateur artists representing centers Gaucho Traditions (CTGs) in various forms, such as traditional dances, recitation, singing, musical instruments, etc. Such manifestations are related to gauchismo and organized by Gaucho Traditionalist Movement (MTG). Want to demonstrate that MTG has been producing pedagogical strategies of re-invention of the site on which is inscribed Enart. Article one of the proposals is to relate it to the desire for expansion and universalization of traditionalism gaucho, seeking a new horizon as a cultural movement and its repercussions.
education; gauchismo; leisure; spectacle