Capoeira: The History of an Afro-Brazilian Martial Art

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Capoeira First documented among African and Creole slaves in late colonial Brazil, the martial art capoeira spread, despite peri ...

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Capoeira The History of an Afro-Brazilian Martial Art Matthias Röhrig Assunção LONDON AND NEW YORK ...

First published 2005 by Routledge, an imprint of Taylor & Francis 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN Simult ...

Contents List of illustrations ix Series editor’s foreword xi ...

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Introduction Acknowledgements xiii 1 The competing master narratives of capoeira history Myths, fakes and facts ‘Extirpate the ...

Series editor’s foreword It was the ambition of the compilers of a recent general study of martial arts to record change over ti ...

If and when the possibly ephemeral fitness fashion has run its course, the spiritual essence of capoeira will remain, and Assunç ...

Acknowledgements This book was written during the years 2001–3; collecting material started in 1994. My personal involvement wit ...

To a large extent the writing-up of this book was only possible thanks to the systematic encouragement and the continuous suppor ...

Potthast (University of Köln) and Dr David Treece (King’s College, London) kindly agreed to act as referees for my research appl ...

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Introduction Hail! Hail the nation Hail the Brazilian nation Hail Princessa Isabel, oh my God, Who delivered me from captivity! ...

ever since.^3 Capoeira has not only its own jargon and organizations, but also its own fashion, hundreds of fanzines and thousan ...

figures in the Afro-Brazilia n experience. Princess Isabel, who in 1888 signed the ‘Golden Law’ abolishing slavery in Brazil, ha ...