Power in Practice : : The Pragmatic Anthropology of Afro-Brazilian Capoeira / / 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 understan...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2017] ©2017 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of 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