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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2017
• VerfasserIn: Varela, Sergio González,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (182 p.)
• Other title: 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781785336362; 9783110998214
• DOI: 10.1515/9781785336362?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Sergio González Varela.

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.