O Sertão
Subtitle: da caatinga, dos santos, dos beatos e dos cabras da peste
By: [projeto editorial, Emanoel Araujo ; pesquisa e edição de textos, Heloisa Cavalcanti de Albuquerque]
Contributors: Museu Afro Brasil
Edition: 1a. ed.
Publisher: Museu Afro Brasil
Published: 2012
Place of publication: São Paulo, SP
Language: por
Number of pages: 302
Subjects: Exhibitions; History; Cowboys; Social life and customs; Priests; Outlaws
Description: The show has about 800 works, including paintings, sculptures, etchings, ex-votos, clothing, photographs, installations and documents, reproducing the environment in which man lives in the backcountry. It is a multi-media show that also has as a main theme the exploration of mysticism and the rough living circumstance in the backcountry of Brazil.
Notes: Catalog of the exhibition held at the Museu Afro Brasil from Oct. 20, 2011 through May 2012.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 293).
Table of contents: title: O Sertão da caatinga; title: Vaqueiros; title: Santos e beatos; title: Caldeirão de Santa Cruz do Deserto; title: Canudos; title: Cabras da peste.