Capoeira, Mobility, and Tourism - Preserving an Afro-Brazilian Tradition in a Globalized World

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.

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List of contents

Chapter 1 History, Mythology, and the Local Imaginaries of Capoeira
Chapter 2 Global Expansion: Making Sense of Mobility
Chapter 3 The Mestre-Student Relationship in the Age of Tourism
Chapter 4 Religious Foundations
Chapter 5 Worshipping the Ancestors
Chapter 6 Capoeira as Intangible Cultural Heritage

About the author

Sergio González Varela is professor of anthropology at the Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Sergio Gonz Varela, Sergio Gonzalez Varela, Sergio González Varela
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2019
• EAN: 9781498570329
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-7032-9
• No. of pages: 184
• Series: The Anthropology of Tourism: Heritage, Mobility, and Society; The Anthropology of Tourism: Heritage, Mobility, and Society; Anthropology of Tourism: Herit
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)