A questão fronteiriça como mito fundador do Acre e dos acreanos.

Abstract

This article aims at investigating the invention of the idea of “Acreanidade” as part of the agenda of the local political leadership since 1999, self-proclaimed as the “Rainforest Government”. Taking Orlandi (2006), Chauí (2007) e Albuquerque J. (2003) as starting points, the analysis will focus on the funding myths of “Acre”, and of the “Acreans” and the “Acrean Revolution”, which, articulated in the autonomist movement that claimed the passage of the Acre from federal territory to state, and in the historical process of fights for the land, conducted by rubber tappers and indigenous people, created the scaffolding for a historical identity which, assimilated by the official discourse, is used to legitimate the interests of those who share an empathy with the “history written by the victors”.

Keywords

• acreanidade
• funding myth
• acre revolution
• rainforest government
• discourse