Capoeira: The History of an Afro-Brazilian Martial Art

Notes

Series editor’s foreword

1 Thomas A.Green and Joseph R.Svinth (eds), Martial Arts in the Modern World (London: Praeger, 2003), p. xi.

2Ibid.

3 Ibid., p. xiii.

4 This volume, p. 3.

5 Ibid., p. 1.

6 John Buchan, Montrose (London: Oxford University Press, 1957), p. 423.

Introduction

1 As translated by G.Downey, ‘Incorporating Capoeira: Phenomenology of a Movement Discipline’ (PhD thesis,
Anthropology, University of Chicago, 1998), p. 91.
2 As sung by Alex Muniz on the CD João Pequeno de Pastinha (Salvador: WR Discos, 2000).
3 Revista Capoeira, Vol. II, No. 4, p. 4.
4 Research done on 21 February 2003.
5 ‘Auntie cuts hot air to create new image’, The Guardian, 27 March 2002.
6 The Middle Passage stands for the second trip in the ‘triangular trade’ between Europe, Africa and the Americas,
when African slaves were forced to embark on overcrowded slave-ships and deported to the plantation colonies of
the ‘New World’.
7 Downey, ‘Incorporating Capoeira’, p. 121.

1

The competing master narratives of capoeira history

1 ‘A capoeira assim foi criada’, Jornal da Capoeira, Vol. 1, No. 1 (São Paulo: Arthgraph, 1996), p. 8; reprinted in
Revista Capoeira, No. 1 (1998), p. 46. Capoeira here refers to the Tupi (native Brazilian) term for a clearing in the
forest where secondary vegetation is growing.
2 S.L.de Souza Vieira, ‘Capoeira—Matriz Cultural Para um Educação Física Brasileira’ (MA thesis, São Paulo:
PUC, Ciências Sociais, 1997).
3 See for example L.Pereira da Costa, Capoeiragem. A arte da defesa pessoal brasileira (Rio de Janeiro: n.e., 1961)
p. 11; A.das Areias, O que é capoeira (São Paulo: Brasiliense, 1984), pp. 13, 15–17; M. Burguês, O estudo da
capoeira (5th edn, n.p., author’s edition, 1987), p. 2.
4 See for example Artes Marciais, special issue ‘Capoeira’, n.d., Jornal da Capoeira, Vol. 1, No. 1 (São Paulo,
1996), p. 8.