Abstract
The project analyses the memory of cangaço, a social banditry phenomena in the Northeast region of Brazil, which gives meaning to this memory as an identity element in the imaginary of the nation throughout the twentieth century. Having the years of 1938 and 1989 as its main marks, for referring to the year of the death of Lampião, "King of Cangaço" in the Cave of Angico- SE and the year …