Learning Capoeira

Preface: Prelude: Playing Capoeira 1. Inside and Outside the Roda The Development of Capoeira Black Culture in Brazil Mobilizing the Black Community Resisting Sociology, Structures, and Symbols A Phenomenological Turn in Ethnography Plan of the Book PART 1: LEARNING 2. The Significance of Skills A Capoeira Class Skill and Sensitivity Learning to Walk The Body's Role in Experience Learning to Fall 3. Following in a Mestre's Footsteps The Advent of the Academy Moving like a Mestre Imitative Learning Coaching the Bananeira Coaching and Developing Skills Apprenticeship as a Research Method PART 2: REMEMBERING 4. History in Epic Registers A Notorious History of Outlaws The Bambas of Bahia The Closing of the ""Heroic Cycle"" The Long Struggle for Liberation African Origins and Slave Resistance The Tragic Life and Death of Mestre Pastinha Alternative Histories How Histories are Heard 5. Singing the Past into Play The Song Cycle Singing Commentary on the Game Mortal Seriousness and Prayer Shifting ""I"" Across Time Ambiguous Times in Song Playing in a Poetic Projection PART 3: PLAYING 6. Hearing the Berimbau The Capoeira Orchestra Musical Interactions The Grain of the Berimbau Listening with a Musician's Hands Hearing with a Player's Body The Social Ability of Hearing Hearing as a Skill 7. Play with a Sinister Past Reminders of the Past The Importance of the Chamada The Chamada's Dramatic Dynamic Play and Implied Violence The Sinister Gravity of Play A Sense of Tradition PART 4: HABITS 8. The Rogue's Swagger The Ginga Fundamentals of Cunning The Despised Waist A Swaying Stride Posture and Self-Transformation Crying at an Adversary's Feet 9. Closing the Body Becoming Aware of One's Openness The Impossibility of Closing Opening an Adversary Closing the Body in Candomblé Signing the Cross Gesture, Posture, and Vulnerability 10. Walking in Evil Hard Jokes and Cautionary Tales Dissembling in a Treacherous World The Sideways Glance Seeing Through Shifty Eyes A Cunning Comportment PART 5: CHANGES 11. The Limits of Whitening The Emergence of Capoeira Regional Critics of Capoeira Regional Bimba's Students and ""Whitening"" Whitening in Brazil Changes in Movement Style Capoeira from Middle-Class Bodies 12. Tearing Out the Shame Hands, Head, and Legs Working with Bodies Reviving Capoeira Angola Broken Movements, Softened Bodies Shame and Its Removal Moved to Change Conclusion: Lessons from the Roda Physical Education as Ethnographic Object The Pragmatism of Practice Embodiment and Experience Notes: Bibliography: Index: