Capoeira: The History of an Afro-Brazilian Martial Art
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1 The competing master narratives of capoeira history Myths, fakes and facts During one dark night in the sixteenth century, the ...
The Father José de Anchieta in the year 1595 published a book with the title: The Grammar of the most used Language on the Coast ...
that any such manifestation would have found its way back into the Brazilian cities, where Africans and their descendants were d ...
included it in the final engraving. I do not want to suggest that his engraving escapes stylization and a particular approach to ...
elaboration and the dissemination of some master narratives that structure perceptions of and discourses about capoeira until th ...
or freedman caught in flagrante, even though without doing any harm to property or persons, was to suffer immediate ‘correction’ ...
popular classes—against capoeiras, but also reinforced many of the clichés about capoeira which still haunt the art today, namel ...
adopted Indian names as a way to distance themselves from Iberian roots without having to associate with symbols of Afro-Brazili ...
monarchists by the press. Although initially da Cunha wanted to prove the degeneration of the mestiço, he became so impressed wi ...
was perceived as a major threat by the elites and vigorously persecuted by the new Republican regime (see Chapter 3), Mello Mora ...
In that context the Japanese victory over Russia, in 1905, contributed to the questioning, if not the collapse of the previous s ...
a ‘Guide to Capoeira or the Brazilian gymnastics’, a first attempt to systematize capoeira movements, establishing the differenc ...
inaugurated by the ‘Week of Modern Art’ in 1922, did these attitudes start to be channelled into more tangible proposals. Perhap ...
inferiority of non-whites and the very existence of human races. The concept of ‘race’ was being substituted by that of ‘culture ...
Marinho also was a capoeirista, and a student and admirer of Burlamaqui. During many years he tried to convince his superiors th ...
Yet the use and abuse of Brazilian-ness also relates to more genuine needs for identity affirmation in an increasingly globalize ...
Artur Ramos (1903–1949), a bachelor of the Faculty of Medicine as well, continued and expanded Nina Rodrigues’ work. He founded ...
religion, supposedly because Angolan slaves were preferred for fieldwork and thus more numerous on plantations than in the citie ...
In Salvador Neves e Souza visited the Axé Opó Afonjá shrine and also attended a ceremony at the terreiro directed by the wife of ...
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