This paper proposes some anthropological notes on aviation and national imaginaries, taking Varig, an important Brazilian airline with international projection and recognition, as a starting point. The analysis is based on an explorative perspective, which included fieldwork among Varig’s former employees, especially female flight attendants who joined the carrier in the 1970s and 1980s and remained until the closure of its activities. Alongside the testimonies of these employees, it analyses magazine and television advertisements from Varig and other Brazilian airlines, in order to throw some light on the pertinence of gender, class and race as social markers that structured the aviation field in the second half of the twentieth century. Through a critical perspective, this work launches heterodox interpretative challenges on the nation-building process, hoping thus to contribute to a better understanding of the political and ideological games that characterised the formation of the nation.

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Varig，“真正的巴西大使馆外”：对航空和国家想象的人类学反思

本文以具有国际投影和认可度的巴西重要航空公司 Varig 为出发点，提出了一些关于航空和国家想象的人类学注解。该分析基于探索性视角，其中包括对 Varig 前雇员的实地考察，尤其是在 1970 年代和 1980 年代加入该航空公司并一直待到其活动结束的女性空乘人员。除了这些员工的证词外，它还分析了 Varig 和其他巴西航空公司的杂志和电视广告，以揭示性别、阶级和种族作为社会标志的相关性，这些社会标志在 20 世纪下半叶构建了航空领域世纪。通过批判的视角，