- A
jagunço (Portuguese pronunciation: [ʒaˈɡũsu]), from the
Portuguese zarguncho (a
weapon of
African origin,
similar to a
short lance or chuzo), is an...
-
setting in the sertão and
nearly all
revolve around the
figure of the
jagunço, a mercenary-like
figure that
serves as a
militia to
farmers and secures...
- time.
Grande Sertão:
Veredas is the
complex story of Riobaldo, a
former jagunço (mercenary or bandit) of the poor and steppe-like
inland of the Rio São...
- million.
Banditry in
Chile Cangaço,
banditry in
Northeast Region,
Brazil Jagunço Dacoity,
Hindi term for
banditry Honghuzi Shanlin Thuggee Nian Abrek,...
- A list of
films that are
based on
western fiction. Geographically, this page encomp****es the
frontiers of the
United States, Canada, and Mexico, as well...
- in the Backlands] It
narrates in
first person the life of
adventures of
jagunço Riobaldo. He is
joined by Diadorim, a boy for whom he
begins to feel a...
-
Traquinices de
Chiquinho e seu inseparável
amigo Jagûnço (The
Escapades of
Chiquinho and His
Inseparable Friend Jagûnço) on
April 26, 1917. In 1918, Avênturas de...
- Carvana), the
corrupt police chief of the town,
hires Antônio das
Mortes as a
jagunço against Coirana and Antônio
fatally wounds Coirana in a duel. However,...
-
ambush referred to in the
title is
carried out by
Natario de Fonseca, a
jagunço in the
service of a
plantation owner,
Colonel Boaventura.
Twenty gunfighters...
- region,
there were two main
groups of
loosely organized armed outlaws: the
jagunços,
mercenaries who
worked for
whoever paid
their price,
usually land-owners...
