The aim of this article is to analyze the issue of the inexplicable in the anthropological analysis of ritual. Communication problems exist with the symbolic elements and knowledge transmitted to the participants within the ritual context. Because the experience in this context is intense and outside the realm of everyday life, the article’s centra...
Capoeira involves fighting movements, turns, acrobatic jumps, and repeated movements, which can lead to injury. This study determined the incidence of injuries in capoeira athletes and analyzed the associated factors. The sample included 157 capoeira athletes, 94 (59.9%) of which were males aged 8–67 years. A questionnaire was administered; in the ...
The aim of this thesis is to explore and analyze what the effects capoeira has on its practitioners when it comes to how it interacts in their everyday life, what capoeira means to them, what feelings they attach to the practice and what meaning they make of the historical aspect of capoeira. This study is based on 7 interviews with people who prac...
Hymenopteran parasitoids are insects that play a fundamental role in ecosystems as they reduce the population density of insects that are considered pests in monocultures. However, little is known about the fauna in association to the eucalyptus trees in comparison to adjacent native vegetations. Therefore, this study was aimed to determine the fau...
Resumen En el presente artículo se comunican los resultados de las fases iniciales de un trabajo de investigación doctoral. El principal objetivo es exponer algunos hechos socialmente relevantes acerca de los orígenes y la llegada de la práctica afrobrasileña de capoeira del estilo Angola a la República de Corea, y en específico a la capital de est...
TCC (graduação) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina. Centro de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas. História / O trabalho aborda as temporalidades e corpos galgados nos desenhos do Caderno de número 3, O jogo da capoeira (1951) da Coleção Recôncavo, de autoria de Carybé. Coletânea encomendada pelo Governo do Estado da Bahia, fora impressa, publicada,...
Published in Frontiers in Sociology
Capoeira, the African-Brazilian dance and martial art has enthusiastic devotees in Britain. Most practitioners are acutely aware of their capoeira embodiment, and have strategies to protect themselves from injury, and ways to seek treatment for any injuries they get. Drawing on data from a long-term ethnography and a set of 32 open-ended interviews...
Published in Frontiers in Psychology
This study analyses some elements of the historical and social nature of Capoeira, such as the juridical-political, the clothing, the symbolic and the identity, but, essentially, those of a physical and linguistic nature, from the caricatures produced by Calixto Cordeiro, which illustrated the work of Lima Campos in 1906. In this work, a multi-meth...
O presente artigo trata de um processo de desenvolvimento histórico da prática da capoeira na cidade de Montes Claros, localizada na região norte do estado de Minas Gerais. Assim, abordam-se desde os seus primeiros indícios, bem como sua contribuição para a formação cultural norte-mineira. Objetivo: identificar um processo histórico da prática da c...
This article deals with two Afro-Brazilian cultural practices pursued in the post-abolition context: capoeira and boi-bumbá. They were the main instruments of mobilization and struggle of black individuals and collectives against the process of physical and cultural whitening in the North of Brazil. The first, in the dimension of black body defense...
