Capoeira: The History of an Afro-Brazilian Martial Art
‘all the negros and mulattos’ that ‘entertain themselves in capoeiragem games’ in seven different locations in the city.^77 The ...
return of ‘many African and African-Brazilian capoeiras’ ‘marked the end of the anomalistic [sic] high representation of Portugu ...
Guaiamus by the binary opposition of Africans versus creoles. In addition, the idea of an encompassing African—as opposed to Bra ...
Therefore, when enemy capoeiras meet in a fortress (tavern) the Guaiamú asks for wine and rum, spills the latter on the ground a ...
profession. Manduca owned a fish stand on the market square near the Praia do Peixe (‘Fish Beach’), which granted him a comforta ...
were allowed to participate in primary elections before the 1881 electoral reform, this still meant that a significant section o ...
which consequently opposed the maltas. For the Republicans in Rio, therefore, the capoeiras came to epitomize everything that wa ...
games and real fights—was almost completely severed. Bodyguards and other people only interested in fighting techniques used its ...
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4 Workers, vagrants and tough guys in Bahia, c. 18 60–1950 Bahia, our Bahia The capital is Salvador He who doesn’t know capoeira ...
small-scale slavery and a middle class of petty slave owners contributed to stabilize slavery as an institution. Plantations, es ...
Figure 4.1 Townships and parishes in the Recôncavo in th e mid-nineteenth century. From Bert Barrickman, A Bahian Counterpoint: ...
institutions of colonial society, such as the Jesuit seminar. As a result, a tiny, white elite dominated the political and cultu ...
hamlet Rio Vermelho on 2 February, dedicated to Sant’Ana (or the orixá Iemanjá), the patron saint of fishermen, represented the ...
circles this engraving is always—and in my view, incorrectly—linked to his other one explicitly entitled ‘Capoera’, most likely ...
Since his mention of the berimbau in the diary is from the same year and does not establish any link with the martial game, one ...
And told me in a unfriendly manner Get lost, white man!^14 This poem suggests that animosity could run high between black capoei ...
War of Paraguay, such as ‘Humaitá’, ‘City of Asunción’ and possibly ‘Paranaê’.^21 The song ‘I was at home’ tells the story of a ...
13 May—the day the Abolition Law was signed by Princess Isabel—started to be commemorated by an annual celebration on the market ...
In the interval of a job (carreira), under the weight of sacks and burdens, one turned the body and there [another] one went int ...
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