This article analyzes the actions of Floriano de Lemos, a physician from Rio de Janeiro state in the Northwest region of São Paulo state in the 1920's, an area also known as Alta Araraquarense, or Novo Oeste Paulista. Its objective is to link his actions in the public sphere, specifically texts he published in the regional press, to the process of capitalist transformation which was occurring there at that time. In addition, it is intended to situate him as a person with an emblematic trajectory for a generation of intellectuals whose intentions were to map, analyze and organize the backlands of the country in the first decades in the twentieth century.
Floriano de Lemos; São Paulo backlands; intellectuals
