Os Malafogados:: memória e guerra na costa do Brasil (1942)

Throughout World War II, merchant and war ships were attacked off the coast of Brazil. Some of its wreckage floated to the northeast beaches. This article sought, then, an investigative centrality to what appeared on the coast of Sergipe and Bahia. Through interviews and documentary research, it was possible to develop a historical approach based on material culture. The act of collecting the rescued by the sea gave rise to a social practice known as malafogados. Thus, through the floating objects, the Brazilians thought "their" Battle of the Atlantic (1942-1945).