State University of Gois Word-Key: Man, Modernity, America, Hibridao Meanings and Culture Nestor Garci’a in the ones backwards proposal to rethink our identity from the hibridao. However the spectacular multiplication of the concept during century XX does not facilitate the agreement necessarily about what really is the hibridao; because throughout the time some meanings had been created. In way to the heterogeneous studies it term, we cannot classify such, as a biological dynamics, therefore the direction of the concept of hibridao in them takes to other factors as social, economic and cultural a debate raised for Marx, who if establishes until the present. But to understand the term we must notice the series of operations, elections, elements, different times that are articulated by the hegemonic groups, in a story that it of the coherence, dramaticidade and eloquence.
The author leaves in them> clearly that the hibridao is an inter-American fusing a process of north-americanizao of the Latin American countries, however we do not have to forget them resistncias and the movements existing rejections. Nestor retakes the reflection on modernity and after-modernismo in the countries metropolitans with ends to examine the contradictions, it enters the utopias of independent creation of the culture and of the industrialization of the symbolic markets, a referring process of historical and sociological inquiry to the Latin American cultures, using modern agents to study the strategies and diverse symbols that the understanding of modernity in several takes you discipline. Therefore the study of the heterogeneous and hybrid cultures it takes in them to the study of diverse felt of modernity, not of simple contradictions, but of manifestations and conflicts not decided.