Jagunço [SEP] country of origin
Jagunço
A Jagunço (), from the Portuguese "zarguncho" (a weapon of African origin, similar to a short lance or "chuzo"), is a armed hand or bodyguard, usually hired by big farmers and "colonels" in the backlands of Brazil, especially in the Northern regions. They were hired to protect their employer, big land owner against invaders and feudal enemies, and also to control their slaves and indentured servants. Some farmers formed their own private militias with a number of heavily armed jagunços
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 Francisco, known as Sertão, of the states of Minas Gerais and Bahia in the dawn of the 20th century. Now an old man and a rancher, Riobaldo tells his long story to an anonymous and silent listener coming from the city. The book is written in one long section, with no section or chapter breaks.
Riobaldo is born into a