出版社：Faculdade de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul
摘要：Societas Sceleris. Cangaço and the formation of bands in the sertão of Pernambuco, Brazil
The words cangaço and cangaceiro are necessarily polysemic in the social field in
which they are produced. Paradoxically, both the literature on the subject and the common
sense view of those who are not experts use those words only in reference to the movement whose leader was the bandit known as Lampião. Many books and articles on the subject
have produce reports about the life of Lampião, but none of them describe with enough
accuracy the social environment in which Lampião was embedded. The systematic study of
kinship, of conflicts among kin groups, and of the coalescence of these groups with state
institutions was virtually discarded. This perspective obscures the perception of Lampião
as one case among many in his time. It also makes difficult the comprehension of the relations
among bands, the modes of membership in them, as well as the forms of articulation with
the police, justice, and politics, and how all of this contributes to the making of new
cangaceiros.
