Embodying Brazil - An Ethnography of Diasporic Capoeira

List of contents

1. Do you know Capoeira? Introduction
Part I: Initial Encounters
2. Anybody Can Learn It: Becoming a Capoeira Student
3. Freedom is the Lamp of the Masters: Becoming a Diasporic Capoeira Teacher
4. The Masters Put on a Show: Capoeira Festivals as Tournaments of Value and Rites of Passage
Part II: Serious Engagements
5. Born in the Slave Quarters: A History of Capoeira
6. All Parts of the Body: Changing Embodiment in Capoeira
7. Malicia, Axé and Mandinga: Tacit Skills and Knowledge
8. All the World is on the Move: Mobilities and their Meanings
9. Dreaming Brazil: Capoeira ‘Here’ and ‘There’
10. Conclusions: An Untranslatable Brazilian Term?
Appendix 1. Methods
Appendix 2. Briefing Notes and Glossary
Appendix 3. Audio Visual and other Resources

Product details

• Authors: Claudio Campos, Campos Claudio, Sara Delamont, Sara (Cardiff University Delamont, Sara (Cardiff University) Stephens Delamont, Neil Stephens, Stephens Neil
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.01.2017
• EAN: 9781138672482
• ISBN: 978-1-138-67248-2
• No. of pages: 244
• Series: Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
• Subjects: Guides > Sport > General, dictionaries, handbooks, yearbooks, history; Brazil, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Sociology: sport & leisure, Sports & outdoor recreation, Sport: general, Sociology: sport and leisure, Social and cultural anthropology, SPORTS & RECREATION / Cultural & Social Aspects