1st Edition
Embodying Brazil An ethnography of diasporic capoeira
1. Do you know Capoeira? Introduction
Part I: Initial Encounters
2. Anybody Can Learn It: Becoming a Capoeira Student
3. Freedom is the Lamp of the Masters: Becoming a Diasporic Capoeira Teacher
4. The Masters Put on a Show: Capoeira Festivals as Tournaments of Value and Rites of Passage
Part II: Serious Engagements
5. Born in the Slave Quarters: A History of Capoeira
6. All Parts of the Body: Changing Embodiment in Capoeira
7. Malicia, Axé and Mandinga: Tacit Skills and Knowledge
8. All the World is on the Move: Mobilities and their Meanings
9. Dreaming Brazil: Capoeira ‘Here’ and ‘There’
10. Conclusions: An Untranslatable Brazilian Term?
Appendix 1. Methods
Appendix 2. Briefing Notes and Glossary
Appendix 3. Audio Visual and other Resources
Biography
Sara Delamont is a Reader in Sociology at Cardiff University, UK.
Neil Stephens is a Research Fellow in Social Sciences at Brunel University, UK.
Claudio Campos is a Brazilian mestre in Capoeira, working in the UK.
