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Hispanic American Historical Review (2008) 88 (4): 727–728.
Published: 01 November 2008
...Joshua M. Rosenthal The Hidden History of Capoeira: A Collision of Cultures in the Brazilian Battle Dance . By Talmon-Chvaicer Maya . Austin : University of Texas Press , 2007 . Photographs. Illustrations. Maps. Tables. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index . xi , 237 pp...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2002) 82 (3): 525–547.
Published: 01 August 2002
...Maya Talmon Chvaicer Copyright 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 In the early nineteenth century public officials in Rio de Janeiro viewed capoeira merely as a game ( jogo ) played by black slaves. Although contemporary travelers’ accounts and engravings initially portrayed...
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in The Criminalization of Capoeira in Nineteenth-Century Brazil
> Hispanic American Historical Review
Published: 01 August 2002
Figure 1 The Game of Capoeira. Source: João Maurício Rugendas, Viagem pitoresca através do Brasil , trans. Sergio Milliet (São Paulo: Liv. Martins, 1954).
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1989) 69 (4): 637–676.
Published: 01 November 1989
... University Press 1989 O n the night of December 28, 1836, Rio de Janeiro police arrested Graciano, a Mina slave, born in West Africa. He had run afoul of the law before, for disrespect to authority, possession of illegal weapons, and engaging in capoeira. Beyond the gymnastic fighting technique...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2014) 94 (4): 581–614.
Published: 01 November 2014
...César Braga-Pinto Abstract This article explores how the introduction of the duel in Brazil around 1888 — along with its proponents' efforts to distinguish it from street fighting or capoeiragem and “men of honor” from dishonored capoeiras and the uncivilized masses — became a meaningful instrument...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2015) 95 (2): 339–342.
Published: 01 May 2015
... Tony and Harriet Winchell, siblings Susan, David, and Thomas Winchell, and three nephews. Betsy's contributions were many — as dedicated scholar, educator and mentor, advocate for interdisciplinary studies, capoeira practitioner, singer, musician, composer, dancer, and world traveler. Her zest for life...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2002) 82 (3): 429–433.
Published: 01 August 2002
... and the evaluation of Afro-American cultural practices were clearly formulated in relation to each other. First, Maya Talmon Chvaicer examines the practice of capoeira among Afro-Brazilians. She demonstrates the transformation of this martial art, dance, and game into a far more sinisterly perceived technique...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1999) 79 (4): 774–776.
Published: 01 November 1999
... days of the transatlantic slave trade through today’s proliferation of houses of candomblé, capoeira, and blocos afros . It also provides a brief demographic and economic history of colonial and nineteenth-century Bahia, where slave-based plantation agriculture gave rise to a New World society...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2016) 96 (1): 190–192.
Published: 01 February 2016
..., and bodily discourses of Brazilian immigrants (particularly to the United States). Among other things, Ana Paula Höfling, Eric A. Galm, and Annie McNeill Gibson all make original contributions to scholarship on the performance and practice of capoeira outside Brazil. To note just one important example...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2014) 94 (3): 522–524.
Published: 01 August 2014
... of folkloric tradition during a period of accelerated modernization in the center-south. Ickes shows that cherished symbols of Bahia so familiar today — the Afro-Brazilian religion Candomblé, the dance / martial art capoeira, the Afro-Catholic festivals and processions — first gained recognition...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2001) 81 (2): 423–424.
Published: 01 May 2001
... cultures”. This shortcoming, however, does not threaten the importance of the work in Fryer’s analysis of what he defines as “neo-African” rhythms in Brazil, such as the music of candomblé and other African Brazilian religions, and that of capoeira , a combination dance/fighting game invented...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1995) 75 (4): 713–714.
Published: 01 November 1995
... discourse. Police efforts to eliminate capoeira , for example, appear to invite analysis along these lines. These comments are not offered as direct criticism of this book. Researchers in this field seldom engage these themes. Holloway has written an excellent book that will significantly influence...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2019) 99 (1): 204–206.
Published: 01 February 2019
...” in postrevolutionary Mexico, Katya Wesolowski's exploration of the shifting meanings of race and capoeira in Brazil, Carolyne Ryan Larson's examination of travel writers and indigenous physicality in Argentina, and Michael Donoghue's chapter on boxing and Panamanian dictator Omar Torrijos look at the state, national...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2023) 103 (2): 380–381.
Published: 01 May 2023
.... As Romo mentions, it is well worth considering how the legitimizing of another long-derided Afro-Brazilian practice, capoeira, figured in the selling of Salvador, given that it complicated attempts to present the city as closely connected with candomblé and its purportedly “festive female religiosity” (p...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2020) 100 (4): 755–756.
Published: 01 November 2020
... groups and fits with scholarship by Scott Ickes and Anadelia Romo that reveals that what appears (and is often presented) as African retentions is actually a series of choices. Bahia markets its Africanness through iconic cultural expressions—most notably, capoeira, candomblé, and the costumed women...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1978) 58 (1): 41–61.
Published: 01 February 1978
... to land appeared, their titles, good or bad, were recorded, and they were told to plant only on land already cleared or with second growth ( capoeira ) and on no account to fell the paus reais (also madeiras da lei , royally-owned hardwoods suitable for shipbuilding) on their holdings. The judge...
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The Revolta Contra Vacina of 1904: The Revolt Against “Modernization” in Belle-Époque Rio de Janeiro
Hispanic American Historical Review (1987) 67 (2): 233–269.
Published: 01 May 1987
... traditional Afro-Brazilian martial art and folk ballet, capoeira . To be sure, the capoeiragem of 1904 was not the highly organized gang warfare of the monarchy. Then, the city’s parishes had often had distinct, secret societies of capoeiras (the term signified both the art and its practitioner), each...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1996) 76 (2): 249–282.
Published: 01 May 1996
... officials in the city and province of Rio de Janeiro in the years following 1835. Slave violence, more subtle forms of resistance, the appearance of capoeira gangs (who employed a violent form of martial art using their feet as weapons) led by slaves and free blacks, and slave flight into the interior...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2012) 92 (2): 303–330.
Published: 01 May 2012
... soldier bragged that it was he, not his social superiors the Duque de Caxias or the Conde d’Eu, who had won the war. 34 Similarly, Carlos Soares affirms that the war gave a new social status as national heroes to capoeiras, mestizos, caboclos , and ex-slaves who had served at the front, upon...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2014) 94 (4): 739–756.
Published: 01 November 2014
...”: Estudios literarios y culturales sobre Eva Perón , 726 Johnson, Benjamin H. (R), 351 Joseph, Gilbert M., and Jürgen Buchenau, Mexico's Once and Future Revolution: Social Upheaval and the Challenge of Rule since the Late Nineteenth Century , 520 “Journalists, Capoeiras, and the Duel in Nineteenth...
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