Ring of Liberation: Deceptive Discourse in Brazilian Capoeira

by J. Lowell Lewis

Book Overview

Based on eighteen months of intensive participant-observation, Ring of Liberation offers both an in-depth description of capoeira--a complex Afro-Brazilian martial art that combines feats of great strength and athleticism with music and poetry--and a pioneering synthetic approach to the analysis of complex cultural performance.

Capoeira originated in early slave culture and is practiced widely today by urban Brazilians and others. At...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226476839
• ISBN13: 9780226476834
• Release Date: September 1992
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 294 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.7" x 8.5"