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“Griffith provides a rich and convincing account of the often surprising connections between the practices, orientations and ‘affective habitus’ of capoeira and social justice struggles. This compelling argument is based on years of ethnographic observant participation and countless hours of interviews with diverse practitioners. The end result is an engaging, highly readable, thoroughly enjoyable, yet always seriously scholarly account of capoeira and its place and work in culture and society--an account that is as surprising, dynamic, and graceful as capoeira itself.”--Paul Bowman, author of The Invention of Martial Arts: Popular Culture between Asia and America

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1. The Making of a Politicized Art

Chapter 2. Social Justice and Resistance as Analytical Frames

Chapter 3. Becoming a Capoeirista

Chapter 4. Capoeira’s Pedagogies of Resistance

Chapter 5. The Capoeira Community

Chapter 6. Group Actions

Chapter 7. Jogue Pra Lá: Individual Applications

Chapter 8. Challenges to the Social Justice Perspective

Chapter 9. Boa Viagem

Glossary

Notes

References

Index

Graceful Resistance

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      Publisher University of Illinois Press
      Published 20 June 2023
      ISBN-13 9780252087196
      978-0252087196
      ISBN-10 0252087194

      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Trade Review
      “Griffith provides a rich and convincing account of the often surprising connections between the practices, orientations and ‘affective habitus’ of capoeira and social justice struggles. This compelling argument is based on years of ethnographic observant participation and countless hours of interviews with diverse practitioners. The end result is an engaging, highly readable, thoroughly enjoyable, yet always seriously scholarly account of capoeira and its place and work in culture and society--an account that is as surprising, dynamic, and graceful as capoeira itself.”--Paul Bowman, author of The Invention of Martial Arts: Popular Culture between Asia and America

      Table of Contents
      Acknowledgments

      Introduction

      Chapter 1. The Making of a Politicized Art

      Chapter 2. Social Justice and Resistance as Analytical Frames

      Chapter 3. Becoming a Capoeirista

      Chapter 4. Capoeira’s Pedagogies of Resistance

      Chapter 5. The Capoeira Community

      Chapter 6. Group Actions

      Chapter 7. Jogue Pra Lá: Individual Applications

      Chapter 8. Challenges to the Social Justice Perspective

      Chapter 9. Boa Viagem

      Glossary

      Notes

      References

      Index

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