Cangaço, crimes of honor and hitmanship in Alagoas Backlands (second half of XX century until the nowdays)

Abstract

This work intends to think historically the phenomenon of endemic violence in the alagoano backlands since of the decade of 1950 of century XX to the present days, focusing on the categories of belligerence in the so-called crimes of honor, private revenge and hitman work. And this work being based on Social History, explore which structures in their various lenses of approach that allowed the validity of these customs that we propose to call customary law in a language more to the Law, or community custom, law based on customs, even having in view of the fact that at the same time that we intend to study, emissaries of a constitutional and positive law, the State as a single federation had already spread to practically all Brazilian corners more or less efficiently, however in my spatial cut of study certainly with efficiency in the sense of presence. Failure to comply with it is the major problem of this research and the customs of punishment that sometimes happens violently. And in order to achieve the project's goal, we need a historical study based on the observance of social structures and structural anthropology and provided with more specific analysis tools such as political culture that in our work have a huge dialog with history of power. In addition, this work aims not only to show the culture of violence in the backlands of Alagoas, in relation to the categories mentioned above, but to try to place them in a more comprehensive Brazilian historical panorama, putting the light on the issue and consequently to find a resolution.