Ring of Liberation: Deceptive Discourse in Brazilian Capoeira

by J. Lowell Lewis

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Based on eighteen months of intensive participant-observation, Ring of Liberation offers both an in-depth description of capoeira--a complex Afro-Brazilian martial art that combines feats of great strength and athleticism with music and poetry--and a pioneering synthetic approach to the analysis of complex cultural performance.

Capoeira originated in early slave culture and is practiced widely today by urban Brazilians and others. At...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0226476839

ISBN13:9780226476834

Release Date:September 1992

Publisher:University of Chicago Press

Length:294 Pages

Weight:0.82 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 5.7" x 8.5"

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