Primitive Rebels
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
"The point about social bandits is that they are peasant outlaws whom the lord and state regard as criminals, but who remain within peasant society, and are considered by their people as heroes, as champions, avengers, fighters for justice, perhaps even leaders of liberation, and in any case as men to be admired, helped and supported. This relation between the ordinary peasant and the rebel, outlaw and robber is what makes social banditry interesting and significant ... Social banditry of this kind is one of the most universal social phenomena known to history."--Primitive Rebels (1959) by Eric Hobsbawm |
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Primitive Rebels (1959) is a book by Eric Hobsbawm, a study of popular forms of resistance that also incorporate behavior characterized by law as illegal.