Index
abadá 135, 172, 187, 209
Abadá Games 195
Abadá group 189, 201, 206
Aberrê, Mestre 130, 147, 192
Abreu, Capistrano de 12
Abreu, Frede 129, 132, 144, 159, 183
Abreu, Plácido de 13, 86
ACAESP (Associação de Capoeira do Estado de São
Paulo) 179
Acordeon, Mestre 128, 138, 173, 186, 186, 199
Adilson, Mestre 177
Afonjá, Axé Opó 22
African Embassy (carnival group) 101
African nations, homogeneity vs heterogeneity 33;
and identity 34–8;
language 34;
political systems 34;
religion 34;
and slave communications 33–6;
Western views/stereotypes 32–5
Afro-Bahian culture 20, 22, 143, 145, 145–1, 156, 181
Afro-Brazilian Congress (1937) 21, 145–1
Afro-Brazilian culture 20, 21, 141, 142, 143, 156, 176,
208
Afrocentric perspective 22–8
agogô 6, 40, 59, 106, 157, 171, 193, 209
Alcides, Mestre 187
Alencar, José de 10
Alfinete, Gildo, Mestre 159
Almeida, Renato 22, 161
Almir das Areias, Mestre (today Anande das Areias) 175,
176, 181
Alves, Ataulfo 162
Alves, Castro 139
Alves, Mario 139
Amado, Jorge 107, 140, 145, 158, 159, 162, 175
Amén, Mestre 186, 200
Amídio, Artur 195
Amorzinho, Mestre 151, 151
Ananias, Mestre 173
Anchieta, José de (Jesuit missionary) 5
Angola 6, 20, 21
Angola style see capoeira Angola
angoleiro 167, 173, 183, 198, 199, 200–6, 209
Angoleiro, Valdemar 173
Aninha, mãe 37
Antônio de Carvalho, Lúcio 195
Areias, Almir das 5, 173, 175
Argollo, Raimundo (Aberrê) 151
Artes das Gerais group 187
Artistic and Cultural Heritage (IPAC) 162
Asante, Kariamu Welsh 25
Asante, Molefi 25
Asian Martial Games 188
Associação de Capoeira Angola Navio Negreiro
(ACANNE) group 184
atabaque 6, 106, 107, 113, 133, 142, 157, 193, 209
capoeira atual 194
axé 112, 139, 197, 209
Axé Project 183
Azevedo, Aluísio de 13, 81Badaró, Ramagem 138
Bahia 21;
aftermath of abolition 100–5;
attempts to revitalize 22;
economy of Recôncavo 91, 95;
Imperial 91–101;
nineteenth century capoeira 96–4;
religion 94–96;
Salvador/Bay of All Saints 91, 95–96;
slave population 94;
troublemakers/tough guys 115–25;
vagrancy in 101–19259