Abstract
This article seeks to describe and analyze the “Bandeira Anhanguera”, an expedition carried out in 1937 under the leadership of Hermano Ribeiro da Silva. The group, which travelled from São Paulo, sought to explore the region located on the left bank of rio das Mortes, a river in central Brazil, considered one of the most unknown extensions of the national territory. Aiming to produce scientific knowledge and make contact with the Xavante natives, who until then were refractory to contact with other peoples, the enterprise sought to mobilize São Paulo, and for this purpose made intense use of the mass media, especially the radio and the written press. The group's trajectory is thus summarily reconstituted, based on the journalistic coverage and the memorialistic reports of three of its participants.
Keywords:
Travel reports; Memorial narratives; Journalism; Exploratory expeditions; Central Brazil