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Capoeira is the most elaborate martial art of the African Diaspora, a spectacular combination of dance, acrobatic kicks, and evasive manoeuvres. 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 sociological 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.

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Book category Books in English The arts Dance & other performing arts Dance

• Full title: Learning Capoeira
• Subtitle: Lessons in Cunning from an Afro-Brazilian Art
• Author: Greg Downey
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 286
• EAN: 9780195176971
• ISBN: 0195176979
• ID: 04516482
• Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
• Weight: 325 g
• Dimensions: 210 × 140 × 14 mm
• Date of publishing: 14. April 2005

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