By Sara Delamont,Neil Stephens,Claudio Campos
The perform of capoeira, the Brazilian dance-fight-game, has grown swiftly in recent times. It has turn into a well-liked rest job in lots of cultures, in addition to a occupation for Brazilians in nations the world over together with the USA, the united kingdom, Canada and Australia. This unique ethnographic learn attracts at the most up-to-date study performed on capoeira within the united kingdom to appreciate this international phenomenon. It not just provides an in-depth research of the martial paintings, but in addition presents a wealth of knowledge on masculinities, performativity, embodiment, globalisation and rites of passage.
Centred in cultural sociology, whereas drawing on anthropology and the sociology of recreation and dance, the e-book explores the reports of these studying and instructing capoeira at numerous degrees. From newbies’ first encounters with this martial artwork to the views of extra complicated scholars, it additionally sheds mild on how academics event their very own re-enculturation as they embrace the unique ‘other’.
Embodying Brazil: An Ethnography of Diasporic Capoeira is interesting examining for all capoeira fanatics, in addition to for an individual drawn to the sociology of game, recreation and social concept, activity, race and ethnicity, or Latin-American stories.
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