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What Jesse James was to the United States, Lampiao was to Brazil, and then some. With a band that at times numbered a hundred or more, this notorious bandit confronted state armies on more than equal terms and cowed political bosses, virtually dominating large sections of his native northeastern backlands during the 1920's and 1930's. Although Lampiao was often brutal and merciless, his occasional acts of compassion, together with his exploits, have made him a folk figure in Brazil.
Based on contemporary news accounts, archival materials, and extensive interviews by the author, this book presents the first systematic and reliable account of the famed desperado. More than the exciting story of a notable brigand, it is also a window on the vast semi-arid backlands of northeastern Brazil, long recognized as one of that nation's most problem-ridden but culturally fascinating regions.
Examining Lampiao's career from his boyhood in Pernambuco to his death at Angicos, Professor Chandler sorts fact from fiction and places the bandit in the context of the backlands, where in the early part of this century becoming a cangaceiro (bandit) was as natural and attractive to the son of a tenant or small farmer as taking a degree in law or medicine was for the sons of the Recife or Salvador elite. Chandler questions the popular notion that this rural banditry was a form of social protest against the ignorance, poverty, and injustice of backlands society. Instead, he sees Lampiao and other cangaceiros as the inevitable products of a lawless society in which frontier conditions reminiscent of the American West persisted far into the twentieth century, (continued on back flap)
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- PublisherTexas A & M Univ Pr
- Publication date1978
- ISBN 10 089096050X
- ISBN 13 9780890960509
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages262
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