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African Heritage and Memories of Slavery in Brazil and the South Atlantic World
This book explores the history of African tangible and intangible heritages and its links with the public memory of slavery in Brazil and Angola. The two countries are deeply connected, given how most enslaved Africans, forcibly brought to Brazil during the era of the Atlantic slave trade, were from West Central Africa. Brazil imported the largest number of enslaved Africans during the Atlantic slave trade and was the last country in the western hemisphere to abolish slavery in 1888. Today, other than Nigeria, the largest population of African descent is in Brazil. Yet it was only in the last twenty years that Brazil's African heritage and its slave past have gained greater visibility. Prior...
Performing Brazil
These essays on Brazilian performance culture comprise the first English-language book to study the varied manifestations of performance in and beyond Brazil, from carnival and capoeira to gender acts, curatorial practice, and political protest.
Handbook of Latin American Studies, Vol. 76
Beginning with Number 41 (1979), the University of Texas Press became the publisher of the Handbook of Latin American Studies, the most comprehensive annual bibliography in the field. Compiled by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress and annotated by a corps of specialists in various disciplines, the Handbook alternates from year to year between social sciences and humanities. The Handbook annotates works on Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean and the Guianas, Spanish South America, and Brazil, as well as materials covering Latin America as a whole. Most of the subsections are preceded by introductory essays that serve as biannual evaluations of the literature and research underway in specialized areas.
Capoeira, Mobility, and Tourism
In Capoeira, Mobility, and Tourism: Preserving an Afro-Brazilian Tradition in a Globalized World, Sergio González Varela examines the mobility of capoeira leaders and practitioners. He analyzes their motivations and spirituality as well as their ability to reconfigure social practices. Varela draws on tourism mobilities, multisited ethnography, global networks, heritage, and the anthropology of ritual and religion in order to stress the commitment, dedication, and value that international practitioners bring to capoeira. For more information, check out A Conversation with Sergio González Varela.
Capoeira Connections
This book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem)—a collaboration of the Association of American Universities, the Association of University Presses, and the Association of Research Libraries—and the generous support of Duke University. A portrait of the game of capoeira and its practice across borders Originating in the Black Atlantic world as a fusion of dance and martial art, capoeira was a marginalized practice for much of its history. Today it is globally popular. This ethnographic memoir weaves together the history of capoeira, recent transformations in the practice, and personal insights from author Katya Wesolowski’s thi...
Capoeira em Múltiplos Olhares
Os trabalhos demonstram que as práticas dos capoeiras não são singulares, atravessando grupos sociais diversos, revelando a sociedade brasileira. Talvez isso tenha capacitado os capoeiras, ou alguns capoeiras, a se tornarem capoeiristas, a lutarem contra as ações repressivas sustentadas pelo artigo 402 do código criminal de 1890 e transformarem a capoeira em luta marcial, esporte e educação física. Os representantes de diversos grupos sociais, praticantes da capoeira, se reuniram novamente. Já não era mais Camisa Preta, Manduca da Praia, Antonio Boca de Porco e Nascimento o Grande. A reunião objetivou colocar a capoeira entre as lutas internacionais,sendo ela a única nacional, construída no Brasil; essas foram as alegações dos principais protagonistas. Surgiram mestre Zuma, mestre Bimba, mestre Sinhozinho, mestre Pastinha, novas abordagens, novas fontes, novos objetos para um mundo dos capoeiristas que (re)inventavam uma tradição.
A CAPOEIRA NA GEOGRAFIA DE SALVADOR
Este livro foi motivado por uma pesquisa que abordou o processo formador das academias de capoeira, suas formas de expansão e significados na capital da Bahia ao longo do século XX e nas duas primeiras décadas do século XXI. Tem-se como marco referencial as experiências dos encontros históricos ocorridos entre capoeiristas nos espaços públicos partilhados pela cidade, um movimento sociocultural que se prolongou para os recintos fechados no decorrer da década de 1930. Posto isso, a Cartografia da Capoeira ilustrada no livro, representa um instrumento de análise socioespacial, visto que, a originalidade do escrito encontra-se na relação entre capoeira, resistência, território e a...
Mulheres que gingam: reflexões sobre as relações de gênero na capoeira
Elas são capoeiristas e apresentam nesta obra as reflexões que realizam sobre as relações de gênero no interior da tradicional Capoeira Angola, por meio de pesquisas acadêmicas produzidas em diversas áreas do conhecimento e em distintas universidades, no Brasil e no exterior. Como numa Roda, importa-lhes afirmar os aspectos formativos da própria capoeira na reflexão e superação das assimetrias que sustentam tais relações. Um jogo que vale a pena participar!
