The Hidden History of Capoeira: A Collision of Cultures in the Brazilian Battle Dance

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The Hidden History of Capoeira THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK The Hidden History of Capoeira A Collision of Cultures in the Brazilian Battle Dance Maya Talmon-Chvaicer University of Texas Press Austin​ x Copyright © 2008 by the University of Texas Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America First edition, 2008 The main ideas in the second part of Chapter 2 were first published in “The Criminalization of Capoeira in Nineteenth-Century Brazil,” in Hispanic American Historical Review 82:3, 525–547. The major theme of Chapter 5 was first published in “Verbal and Non-verbal Memory in Capoeira,” in Sport and Society 7 (2004): 49–68, www.tandf .co.uk/journals. Requests for permission to reproduce material from this work should be sent to: Permissions University of Texas Press P.O. Box 7819 Austin, TX 78713-7819 www.utexas.edu/utpress/about/bpermission.html ♾ The paper used in this book meets the minimum requirements of ANSI/NISO Z39.48-1992 (R1997) (Permanence of Paper). Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Talmon-Chvaicer, Maya, 1968– The hidden history of capoeira : a collision of cultures in the Brazilian battle dance / Maya Talmon-Chvaicer. — 1st ed.    p.   cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-292-71723-7 (cloth : alk. paper) ISBN 978-0-292-71724-4 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Capoeira (Dance)—Social aspects— Brazil—History. 2. Brazil—Social life and customs. I. Title. GV1796.C145T35 2007 793.3'1981—dc22 2007008882 To my parents, Ruth and Dan, my husband, José (Yossi), and my sons, Lavy and Naveh, for their support, encouragement, and patience THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK ...