Capoeira: The History of an Afro-Brazilian Martial Art
The distinction between sacred and profane is equally hazardous in the case of colonial and imperial Brazil, since religion perm ...
with Palmares and other runaway settlements reckon that maroons used bows, arrows, and even firearms when fighting the armies se ...
Many—although not all—forms were associated with music and dance and embedded in wider ceremonies.^76 Wrestling is also particul ...
for earlier periods. The theory that presentday combat games such as capoeira derive from tougher and more martial African comba ...
Figure 2.3 N’golo. Drawings by A.Neves e Souza, 1965, from...Da minha África e do Brasil que eu vi... (Luanda: n.p., n.d.). Cour ...
the leaps and battles of the zebra; the blow with the feet while the hands are touching the ground is certainly reminiscent of t ...
transformed into a weapon of attack and defence, which helped them to survive in a hostile environment. [This is the] reason for ...
and traditions related to capoeira. Desch-Obi attempts to link the twentieth-century customs of a people of southwestern Angola, ...
Once the music has taken hold of the crowd, a fighter will enter the circle and raise his open hands above his head as a challen ...
Imbangala.^104 With all due respect to the important fieldwork Desch-Obi carried out, I think that this like many other conclusi ...
executing steps on the point the feet; all this with much speed, shouting, whistling, making gestures and contortions with his h ...
Morengy in Madagascar also counts on bare-knuckle boxing as a basic fighting technique. Many styles exist among the over 40 diff ...
machetes, and knives. During carnival real fights occurred between groups from rival dance teams. Under these conditions of stre ...
When they have danc’d an hour or two, the men fall to wrestle, (the Musick playing all the while), and their manner of wrestling ...
A similar distinction between friendly games and real confrontations was and is still made on the Spanish American mainland. Sti ...
particular neighbourhoods. Each band had its champion fighters, or calinda kings and queens since some women also took part in f ...
injuries. Maní was played with or without a kind of glove (muñeca). No manísero knew for sure whom the dancer would strike next, ...
maní was mainly practised on Cuban plantations, not so much in the cities. That might explain why there are some explicit refere ...
[...] after screaming and jabbering at each other for nearly an hour, and keeping the whole neighbourhood in an uproar, suddenly ...
falling on two hands and going to the ground to avoid strikes, and the fast kicking similar to a rabo de arraia in capoeira. Dun ...
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