O sertão inventado

a percepção dos sertões maranhenses pelo olhar de Francisco de Paula Ribeiro

Abstract

This text mentions the construction of a look at the sertões Maranhão, established
by the Portuguese military Francisco de Paula Ribeiro on the threshold of the
nineteenth century. Cutting the work done in Portuguese, the installation of Royal
Farms and demarcation of the borderline between the captaincies Maranhão and
Goiás, Paula Ribeiro traveled throughout the hinterland and reported through his
memoirs written, geographical aspects, economic and cultural region. This set of
prints made during the first two decades of the century, is here cognominado of
"creating perceptions." Are creating at the time the main intellectuals who wrote
about the sertões in the first half of the twentieth century kept part of the
impressions ribeirianas, corroborating to fix images in the recovery geographical,
demonstration of abandonment and loss of indigenous human element in favor of
cattlemen.