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"cangaceiro", a "robber", or in the very least a peasant, perhaps a merchant …
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"cangaceiro", a "robber", or in the very least a peasant, perhaps a merchant …
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"cangaceiro", a "robber", or in the very least a peasant, perhaps a merchant …
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(He used the expression “cangaceiro”, meaning a specific type of bandit leader operating in the drylands of the Northeast of Brazil).
Global Voices in English » Brazil: On the meaning of “Minorities with a majority complex” 2009
mollusque commented on the word cangaceiro
The meetings were held in shabby houses decorated with a few posters and a lot of folk art, portraits of Lenin and Amerindian fetishes, or terra-cotta figures glorifying the cangaceiros, outlaws of the Northeast.
--Umberto Eco, 1988, Foucault's Pendulum, p. 162
October 1, 2008