Illustrations
Tables
Acknowledgments
Preface

Introduction

Chapter 1. The Fight for Recognition: A Brief History of Capoeira Angola in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
Chapter 2. Capoeira Angola in Its Own Right
Chapter 3. Cosmological Bodies
Chapter 4. Mandinga: The Creation of Powerful Persons
Chapter 5. Playful Violence and the Ambiguity of Deception
Chapter 6. How Musical Instruments Become Persons: The Power of Materiality

Epilogue

Glossary
References
Index

About the Author

Sergio González Varela is Professor of Anthropology at Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí, Mexico. He is currently working on a book about the anthropologist Paul Stoller.

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