Capoeira: The History of an Afro-Brazilian Martial Art
derived from Central African practices. Yet there is not much evidence regarding the incorporation of different techniques into ...
Slaves from different origins practised combat games throughout Plantation America in their free time, mainly on Sunday afternoo ...
Paulo. Even though not always described in detail, evidence suggests that each region had its specific variant, which differed f ...
3 Capoeiragem in Rio de Janeiro, c.1800–1930 Adam, Adam Where is Salomé, Adam? Salomé went for a walk (Capoeira song from the pu ...
As a result of sugar’s continued reliance on slave labour, half of the region’s 170,000 inhabitants in 1789 were slaves, three ...
slaves worked as street vendors. Pedlars literally crowded the streets of Rio, selling food and many other objects. The exercise ...
This silence of the sources regarding capoeira might be due to the fact that police surveillance was minimal prior to 1808, not ...
chiefs implemented that we know of the existence of a slave practice called capoeira. Even though police records unfortunately d ...
that remains is that we do not know precisely how ‘dispersed’ or related these traditions were in Africa. It is therefore diffic ...
Another rare eyewitness of the first half of the nineteenth century, known only as A.P.D.G., provides us with more information. ...
The large Campo de Santana superseded the Carioca Square as favourite for capoeira activity during the 1830s. Other popular plac ...
birthplace of capoeira by some of the first scholars writing on capoeira,^33 and the Valongo quay, infamous for its slave market ...
Figure 3.4 Central Section of Rio de Janeiro, c. From T.H.Holloway, Policing Rio de Janeiro: Repression and Re sistance in a N ...
any futile and arbitrary reason, such as a ‘suspicious’ or ‘strange attitude’, or lingering at a corner, was enough to arrest sl ...
prisoners, soldiers and sailors. Often the complicity of sentinels helped prisoners in their attempts to escape. Soares’ work al ...
While there seemed to exist a Central African-derived basic structure of these practices in both rural and urban settings, in Ri ...
had an impact on the capoeira universe. As a result, the social and ethnic background of capoeiras in Rio underwent substantial ...
of the arrested capoeiras, increasing to 33 per cent in 1890, whereas blacks counted for 36 and 30 per cent respectively in thes ...
Rio possessed these skills. Furthermore, the Portuguese stick is large, usually reaching from the ground to the armpit, whereas ...
A Portuguese influence is easier to establish for the razor. The navalha, which translates both as razor or jackknife, figures p ...
«
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
»
Free download pdf