Folk sports are the countertype of modern sports: invented traditions, bolstered by tangible
ritual and intangible myth, played by the common folk in order to express a romantic ethnic …

Capoeira is a combat game developed by enslaved Africans and Brazilian-born Blacks on
the streets and squares of port cities in late colonial Brazil. From the 1930s onwards …

Este estudo objetiva compreender como era representada a educação física da juventude
urbana na década de 1930, em um contexto de embates pela reconstituição da identidade …

Background: Capoeira has been described as beneficial in several aspects, but one of the
possible consequences of its growing popularity is the increased account of musculoskeletal …

El presente artículo es acerca del proceso de aprendizaje del arte ritual afrobrasileño de la
capoeira desde una perspectiva antropológica. A pesar de ser un fenómeno global …

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 …

This article is about the learning process of Afro-Brazilian capoeira from an anthropological
perspective. Despite being a global phenomenon practiced in more than one hundred …

Capoeira is widely described as an Afro-Brazilian martial art. Its elements comprise combat,
dance, acrobatics, play, music, rhythm, song, storytelling, ritual and spiritual connection. As a …

This study aims to understand how the physical education of urban youth in the 1930s was
represented, in a context of conflicts for the reconstitution of national identity in Brazil. It is …

Thesis Template Page 1 The Capoeirista’s Journey in Australia: A ‘Dance-Fight-Game’ of
Decolonising Subjectivities Rebecca Ruth March-Sarr BA/LLB (Hons), PDLP Submitted in total …