Capoeira: Roots of the Dance-Fight-Game by Nestor Capoeira

Capoeira: Roots of the Dance-Fight-Game

Nestor Capoeira

376 pages first pub 2002 (editions)

nonfiction sports challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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Capoeira is simultaneously a dance, a fight, and a game. Created by the Africans brought to Brazil as slaves beginning in 1500, capoeira was forbidden by law but survived underground. When open practice was allowed in the 1930s it soon became very...

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