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Capoeira: The History of Afro-Brazilian Martial Art (Sport in the Global Society, 45)
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by Matthi Assunção
Sales Rank: 620902
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List Price: $69.95
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Cover Type: Paperback with 224 pages
Published by: RoutledgeEdition: 1st Edition October 1, 2002
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0714680869
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0714680866
Book Dimensions:
9.6 x 6.7 x 0.6 inches
Weighs: 1.2 pounds
Reader Reviews
The problem with this book is that He is only using written accounts of Capoeira to validate his views. Many other reviewers mistakenly regard this as "scholarly". It down plays any other perspective about the history, origin, or practice of Capoeira as "questionable" because it was not written about at a certain time. The problem with this attitude is that it leaves Capoeira's definition in the hands of the white slave owners of Brasil who were writing about it. It neglects the fact that just because someone did not write about something it did not happen. Capoeira's origins, as the author acknowledges is from Angola. These people were followers of oral learning not written learning. It is elitist to suggest that the writing (especially when written by outsiders who were also bias slave holders) is more valuable than the oral traditions. Capoeira is African. And most of Africa is oral in traditions of learning and recording...thus it is only fair to acknowlege these oral legacies over the outsiders written response to a martial art he did not understand or respect.
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