Capoeira: The History of an Afro-Brazilian Martial Art
Militants from the Brazilian Black Movement (Movimento Negro) often sought inspiration and advice from the more established US g ...
A more Africa-centred perspective has also help to highlight some important links and continuities between contemporary capoeira ...
departure. He established, unsurprisingly, that these are all present in capoeira Angola, which can therefore be identified as a ...
[...] the diaspora experience as I intend it here is defined, not by essence or purity, but by the recognition of a necessary he ...
already adopting a Bahian perspective, acknowledging Bahian hegemony over actual capoeira forms, whilst adepts from the Southeas ...
women suffered from male capoeiras and any other aspect that questions the ‘resistance’ aspect of the art are not problematized. ...
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2 Capoeira in the context of the Black Atlantic Despite controversies over the remote ‘roots’ of capoeira, and over what constit ...
on the common cultural traits supposedly shared by slaves from different parts of Africa.^1 He believed that motor habits, aesth ...
In their zeal to show the irrelevance of African traditions, Eurocentric or ‘America-centric’ scholars have often ignored import ...
homogenous picture but rather engaged in heated controversies inspired by and linked to the political agendas discussed in the p ...
In the religious domain structural similarity often characterized belief systems within one major cultural area. In Lower Guinea ...
that the definition of many African ‘nations’ evolved over time. In addition, the definition of who was Mina or Angola changed a ...
Slave culture in Brazil The strongest case for the existence of African ‘retentions’, or slave practices that can be seen as ‘ex ...
and that therefore syncretism was real, not faked. Others have adopted a more Afrocentric view, pleading that deception was main ...
If religion constituted the realm of harsh conflicts, where the ruthless repression unleashed by the authorities was met by the ...
manifestation; yet their presence does not exclude other contributions from elsewhere, especially in the case of more encompassi ...
The diversification of instruments and audiences was also accompanied by changes in the songs. If the basic structure of one sol ...
but on the other closely related practices could be known under various names?^57 One needs to conclude that encompassing terms ...
traditions of royalty converged in the celebration of these ‘African kingdoms’ under the mantle of the Church. Marina de Mello e ...
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