Cangaço e memória

Abstract

This study as its objective to analyze the different concepts of the memory of the cangaço based on living memories and the impressions of the are as of combat, and this mergingwith the history of the people and using this group as its reference. The anthropological understanding of the Cangaço phenomenon (a banditry phenomenon that took place in the Nortf-east of Brazil) requires the methodology of study of the collective and individual memory, through the reading of documents, reports, books of memory, memory theory and oral history techniques. Around values such as courage, honor and bravery, develops the history of Cangaço at the first three decades of this century, in the North-east. I search, through the analyses of the fights between Lampião and his Nazarenos archenemies a reconstitution of the ideology and practices of the North-east Society of this period.