São Paulo: operating settings the bandeirante saga

Abstract

The article look for sustain the existence of operations, through mandatory plans, create national or regional myths, searching to establish a given order of identity. In particular, analyzes the representations about the figure of the Bandeirante, the paulista, and traverses some of the meanings to it from the tied Brazil Colony, to spark the sets of actions that combine to achieve certain goals still considered active, even in times of multiculturalism and transnationalism, in seeking to revive models and behaviors, clearly set out previously, to coin given character of be paulista.