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The hidden history of capoeira : a collision of cultures in the Brazilian battle dance
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The hidden history of capoeira : a collision of cultures in the Brazilian battle dance / Maya Talmon-Chvaicer.
ISBN
9780292717237 (cloth : alk. paper)
0292717237 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780292717244 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0292717245 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Edition
1st ed.
Published
Austin, TX : University of Texas Press, 2008.
Physical Description
xi, 237 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 20, 2009
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-221) and index.
Contents
A Rio de Janeiro slave game
The battle and the game (1840s-1870s)
Patrons and oppressors (1870s-1930s)
New center, new style : capoeira regional and capoeira angola in twentieth-century Bahia
The game of life : battle of cultures.
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