Learning Capoeira
Lessons in Cunning from an Afro-Brazilian Art
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 14 April 2005
- ISBN 9780195176971
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages288 pages
- Size 209x140x13 mm
- Weight 357 g
- Language English
- Illustrations numeorus halftones 0
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Short description:
Capoeira is the most elaborate martial art of the African Diaspora, a spectacular combination of dance, acrobatic kicks, and evasive maneuvers. Typically played as a game in which two players vie to control space, demonstrate superior mobility, and trip, kick, or head-butt each other to the ground at a moment of vulnerability, capoiera resembles a combination of acrobatic dance, slow martial arts sparring, and improvised musical performance. Learning
Capoeira is an ethnographic study based on participant observation and more than ten years of apprenticeship in the acrobatic martial art. Rather than treating capoeira on a sociologica or cultural level, this book takes an experience-centered approach towards exploring the effects of the art on a player's
perceptions and social interactions outside the roda, the "ring" in which the game is played. The text is innovative by example, demonstrating how an experience-centered analysis and ethnographic apprenticeship might produce rich, compelling understanding of a distinctive cultural world.
Long description:
Capoeira is the most elaborate martial art of the African Diaspora, a spectacular combination of dance, acrobatic kicks, and evasive maneuvers. Typically played as a game in which two players vie to control space, demonstrate superior mobility, and trip, kick, or head-butt each other to the ground at a moment of vulnerability, capoiera resembles a combination of acrobatic dance, slow martial arts sparring, and improvised musical performance. Learning
Capoeira is an ethnographic study based on participant observation and more than ten years of apprenticeship in the acrobatic martial art. Rather than treating capoeira on a sociologica or cultural level, this book takes an experience-centered approach towards exploring the effects of the art on a player's
perceptions and social interactions outside the roda, the "ring" in which the game is played. The text is innovative by example, demonstrating how an experience-centered analysis and ethnographic apprenticeship might produce rich, compelling understanding of a distinctive cultural world.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Inside and Outside of the Roda
I. Learning
Learning Skills
Following in a Mestre's Footsteps
II. Remembering
History in an Epic Register
The Long Struggle for Liberation
III. Playing
Singing History into Play
Hearing the Berimbau
Play with a Sinister Past
IV. Habits
The Rogue's Swagger
Closing the Body
Walking in Evil
V. Changes
The Limits of Whitening
Tearing Out the Shame
The Danger of Mechanization
VI. Conclusion
Lessons from the Roda
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