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Power in Practice : The Pragmatic Anthropology of Afro-Brazilian Capoeira / Sergio González Varela.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2017]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resource (182 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781785336355
  • 9781785336362
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 792.80981 23
LOC classification:
  • GV1796.C145 G66 2017
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1 The Fight for Recognition: A Brief History of Capoeira Angola in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil -- CHAPTER 2 Capoeira Angola in Its Own Right -- CHAPTER 3 Cosmological Bodies -- CHAPTER 4 Mandinga: The Creation of Powerful Persons -- CHAPTER 5 Playful Violence and the Ambiguity of Deception -- CHAPTER 6 How Musical Instruments Become Persons: The Power of Materiality -- Epilogue -- References -- Index
Summary: Considering the concept of power in capoeira, an Afro-Brazilian ritual art form, Varela describes ethnographically the importance that capoeira leaders (mestres) have in the social configuration of a style called Angola in Bahia, Brazil. He analyzes how individual power is essential for an understanding of the modern history of capoeira, and for the themes of embodiment, play, cosmology, and ritual action. The book also emphasizes the great significance that creativity and aesthetic expression have for capoeira’s practice and performance.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1 The Fight for Recognition: A Brief History of Capoeira Angola in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil -- CHAPTER 2 Capoeira Angola in Its Own Right -- CHAPTER 3 Cosmological Bodies -- CHAPTER 4 Mandinga: The Creation of Powerful Persons -- CHAPTER 5 Playful Violence and the Ambiguity of Deception -- CHAPTER 6 How Musical Instruments Become Persons: The Power of Materiality -- Epilogue -- References -- Index

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Considering the concept of power in capoeira, an Afro-Brazilian ritual art form, Varela describes ethnographically the importance that capoeira leaders (mestres) have in the social configuration of a style called Angola in Bahia, Brazil. He analyzes how individual power is essential for an understanding of the modern history of capoeira, and for the themes of embodiment, play, cosmology, and ritual action. The book also emphasizes the great significance that creativity and aesthetic expression have for capoeira’s practice and performance.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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