O bandeirismo não é apenas um tema do passado: bandeirantes, entradas e bandeiras na construção historiográfica no Curso de Bandeirologia (1946)

Abstract

This dissertation paper seeks to analyze the promotion material entitled as Curso de Bandeirologia, published in 1946. Originally from twelve public conferences related to the theme of the entradas and bandeiras, performed in the same year in the city of São Paulo, the event, due to the fact of taking place in a new political moment of the country history, brings light up to a tentative, by means of a new way of promotion, of rethink the image of the bandeirante not only as a hero, but as the responsible character for the first steps of the different organization of the Brazilian States. The material contains the speeches of highly honored historians in the Brazilian studies: Afonso de Taunay, Alfredo Ellis Júnior, Sérgio Buarque de Holanda, Virgilio Correa Filho, Joaquim Ribeiro and Afonso Arinos de Melo Franco, recognized literates in the intellectual field that presented as a common characteristic, produced work papers referent to the bandeiras theme. To better comprehend and verify the announced speeches in this material, the present academic paper intents to set a contextualization of the intellectual and political scene which these literates were insert in, the publication circles that prevailed from the 1930 decade, as the presentation of the authors that in 1946 were part of the published material, seeking to describe the intellectual and academic trajectory, the participation in the political scene and the paper works produced concern to the bandeiras paulistas theme. The dialogue between the defended hypothesis by these intellectuals through the thematic keys as the development of the territory, the relation between the bandeirantes, indians and jesuits, and the heroic image of the sertanista man are also part of this research with the objective of comprehend the mainly expressed ideas in the Curso de Bandeirologia. To make possible the achievement of the objectives of this dissertation, some sources of the period were investigated, with a special attention to the newspaper from Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo that promoted the conferences during all the event realization.