Capoeira: The History of an Afro-Brazilian Martial Art
sponsored by a wealthier merchant house, and entailed a pilgrimage by water to one of the churches on the waterfront, such as Bo ...
Figure 4.5 City centre of Salvador, 1894, based on the ‘Planta da Cidade de São Salvador, Bahia’ by A.Morales de Los Rios. THE C ...
refusal to endorse the dominant model of work ethics that lower classes were supposed to follow, and to comment ironically about ...
Most movements require good balance and flexibility, as well as strength, since players often equilibrate themselves on their ar ...
earth. Not to sully the other’s clothes was therefore conceivable because players would hardly touch each other. Yet not every p ...
games thus provided a framework for the different modalities of play. The Angola rhythm, for instance, demanded a slow, ritualis ...
of capoeira’ altogether.^57 Yet M.Noronha also insisted that ‘the inside game is the most important game [within the Capoeira An ...
These three types of song and their sequence are still part and parcel of many contemporary capoeira rodas which attempt to keep ...
T.J.Desch-Obi has suggested that the capoeira game as a whole derived from Central African practices. He argues that the ritual ...
deities from the emerging nations of candomblé, and other magical beliefs and practices. Capoeira was an integral part of this u ...
saint-of-the-snake in the candomblés de caboclo’.^79 Most observers did relate capoeira to the more syncretic candomblés, which ...
Uncle Pascoal rewarded him one day by offering him a protection, that ‘only God could succeed in deceiving [overthrowing] him’. ...
The British traveller Henry Koster provided us with an early description of these men in Northeastern Brazil, that also links th ...
banning capoeiragem. In contrast with Rio de Janeiro, repression against capoeira was usually limited to the prosecution of ‘dis ...
individual fights and their immediate motives one grasps a complex web of wider social significance that the records in the arch ...
to discipline a group of upper-class students who were behaving improperly.^110 At times police tolerance of capoeira could be n ...
Tucum, since Besouro’s body was resistant to metals. Another explains that his persecutors only got hold of him because they mad ...
other people’. He related the knife and gun injuries to the ‘concentration of troublemakers’ in the area and added a list of por ...
Conclusion The ladainha ‘Brazil said yes, Japan said no’, still sung in contemporary rodas, invokes the participation of a capoe ...
fulfilled therapeutic functions in a different, and sometimes, complementary way from candomblé. As such it also contributed to ...
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