O peão da festa do peão de boiadeiro : herói ou vítima em mais do que oito segundos

Abstract

The present study is about the cowboy and the rodeo cowboy. The cowboy in reference is the man that worked, during the thirties, forties and fifties of the 20 th century in the these regions: northwest of São Paulo, Triângulo Mineiro, Goiás and Mato Grosso. The rodeo cowboy is the man that acted, between 2004 and 2007, in the rodeos of the the São Paulo state, mainly in the Barretos city Fifty two years after the first Barretos rodeo, an event inspired on horse breaking-in, executed by the cowboy that led herd along the trails, it is recognized the occurrence of more than 1.300 brazilian rodeos. The present study intends to discuss the relationship between the current brazilian rodeos and that man of the trails. Other aspect under discussion regards to the rodeo cowboy identity. This study is based upon the reports of the cowboys, now retired. They, in the absence of any document, use the memory to bring to the current days the most of their lives on the trails leading herd. The study of the rodeo cowboys was done from a research on their ideas about themselves and close to their public, with the purpose of obtaining a comparison among the ideas that they have about themselves and the opinion that the rodeo public has about them. It is a work about the concepts of collective memory (Halbwachs) and identity (Castells). The cowboys memory declarations and the actions practiced in the rodeos, show the presence of foreign elements in shock with the Brazilian cultural elements originated from our hinterland. The result of this cultural shock leaves the rodeo places and, impelled by the interests of the media, reaches the urban centers