The physical expression of Brazilian capoeira features an intriguing combination of
playfulness and aggression that practitioners navigate with malícia—the ability to be …

In September 2020, the outlandishly talented Dominican novelist, musician, and
performance artist Rita Indiana dropped her first musical album in a decade, Mandinga …

Seeking to uproot evil from people's life, neo-Pentecostal exorcists in Brazil separate
between internal and external bodily surfaces and then 'close'the victim's entire body to …

Oral storytelling is the oldest form of instruction across a myriad of cultures. Humans are
intrinsically storytellers who express themselves through stories that already exist (Fisher …

In The Ripple Effect: Gender and Race in Brazilian Culture and Literature, Barbosa adopts a
comparative, multilayered, and interdisciplinary line of research to examine social values …

Music is both a transmitter and mediator of culture and identity for every social group and
subgroup. The way we produce, experience, and discuss music touches every node of …

By the year 2050, racial and ethnic minorities are projected to become the rising majority
accounting for more than 50% of the population in the United States, however minorities are …

Background. Over the last few decades, the capoeira has highlighted it as one of the
fascinating human activities. Parallel to the growing number of practitioners worldwide …

The course aims to provide students with an in-depth view of the different anthropological
theories of ritual, major ethnographic topics, definitional problems, and significant authors …

El objetivo de este artículo es hacer un análisis de las relaciones entre humanos y animales
en el ámbito ritual, particularmente dentro del contexto etnográfico de la capoeira en Brasil …