TY  - BOOK
AU  - Varela,Sergio González
TI  - Power in Practice: The Pragmatic Anthropology of Afro-Brazilian Capoeira 
SN  - 9781785336355
AV  - GV1796.C145 G66 2017
U1  - 792.80981 23
PY  - 2017///]
CY  - New York, Oxford
PB  - Berghahn Books
KW  - Black people
KW  - Brazil
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - Blacks
KW  - Capoeira (Dance)
KW  - Anthropological aspects
KW  - Dance
KW  - Bahia (State)
KW  - Martial arts
KW  - History
KW  - PERFORMING ARTS / Dance / Regional & Ethnic
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Anthropology (General), Performance Studies
N1  - 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; restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781785336362?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781785336362
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781785336362/original
ER  -