The Roncador-Xingu Expedition: (new and old) bandeirantes in the conquest of the West Frontier

• Autor(a) principal: de Almeida, Thays Fregolent
• Data de Publicação: 2018
• Outros Autores: Schneider, Alberto Luiz
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista de Ciências Sociais
• Texto Completo: http://www.periodicos.ufc.br/revcienso/article/view/31353
• topic: Roncador-Xingu Expedition; Villas-Bôas Brothers; Brazil’s march to the West; ‘Bandeirantes’ mythology; frontier; Expedição Roncador-Xingu; Irmãos Villas-Bôas; Marcha para Oeste; Mitologia Bandeirant; Fronteira

The present paper argues that the intellectual and cultural production focused on Brazilian hinterlands and central region, initially produced in the late XIX century and especially the first half of XX century, was the propeller to the so-called West Brazilian March and, more specifically, the focus of this article, The Roncador-Xingu Expedition (1943-1948). Literary and Historiography production – developed as an investment around the story and memory of the Bandeirantes, in São Paulo State – featured as the main role in the construction of a political agenda required due to the urgency to explore remote areas of Brazilian territory. As a result of that, The Roncador-Xingu Expedition was able to rely on financial and political support, as well as considerable visibility.