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152 Jornal Abadá-Capoeira, No. 30 (May-June 2000), pp. 4–6; No. 32 (Sept-Oct 2000), pp. 1–7.
153 Praticando Capoeira, No. 11, pp. 34–6.
154 Praticando Capoeira, No. 11, pp. 6–9.
155 The Brazilian Olympic Committee officially recognized the CBC in 1995. See M.Zulu, Idiopráxis de capoeira
(Brasília: Fundação Educacional do DF, 1996), p. 16; www.capoeiradobrasil.com.br/olimpiadas.htm.
156 E.Biancardi Ferreira, Ôlelê maculelê (Brasília: n.p., 1989), p. 55.
157 Almeida, Capoeira, p. 46.
158 Jornal do Comércio, 6.10.1963, O Jornal, 18.7.1961.
159 ‘Capoeira de rua morreu: hoje é para turista ver’, Correio da Manhã (RJ), 24.6.1960; ‘Turismo distorce e vende
tradição’, A Tarde, Salvador, 23.3.1962, H.Vianna, F olclore brasileiro. Bahia (Rio de Janeiro: MEC, 1981),
p. 28.
160 Correio da Manhã, 21.10.1960.
161 A.Frigerio, ‘Capoeira: de arte negra a esporte branco’, Revista Brasileira de Ciências Sociais, Vol. 10, No. 4
(1989), pp. 85–98.
162 See for example the statements by M.Joel, Praticando Capoeira, Vol. I, No. 5, p. 18; M.Zoião in Couto,
História, pp. 32–3; M.Jelon Vieira in Revista Capoeira, Vol. II, No. 6, p. 28.
163 Revista Capoeira, Vol. II, No. 5, p. 10.
164 Praticando Capoeira, Vol. I, No. 10, pp. 16–17.
165 CD Brincando na roda (Salvador: GCAP, 2001), track 2.
166 Interview with M.Nenel, Praticando Capoeira, Vol. I, No. 11, p. 29; Interview with M.Acordeon,
www.capoeira.bz/articles/revista.html.
167 Almeida, Capoeira, p. 43.
168 M.Amen, Praticando Capoeira, 11, p. 13; see also M.Maurão: ‘I try to deal with all aspects of capoeira, not only
Angola or Regional, it is a very difficult thing’, ‘Capoeira’, Negro 100 por cento, Vol. I, No. 1, p. 10.
169 Revista Capoeira, No. 3 (1998), p. 32.
170 Interview with M.Suassuna, Praticando Capoeira, Vol. I, No. 3, p. 14; Revista Capoeira, Vol. II, No. 6, pp. 33–5.
171 Praticando Capoeira, Vol. I, No. 9, p. 39.
172 For a different account see M.Jogo de Dentro in Praticando Capoeira, Vol. I, No. 4, pp. 38–40.
173 For a further discussion of this issue, see Downey, ‘Incorporating’, pp. 302–7.
174 Travassos, ‘Mandinga’, p. 70.
175 See also M.Umoi, ‘A problemática da Mestria’, www.terravista.pt/FerNoronha/1933/top.htm
176 See for instance the organization of the group Beribazu, in J.L.Cirqueira Falcão and L.R.Vieira (orgs), História e
fundamentos do grupo Beribazu (Brasília: Starprint, 1997), pp. 43–55, 54.
177 See discussions at the 4th FICA International Women’s Conference in Seattle, O Angoleiro (April 2002), p. 8.
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NOTES 245
1 CD Grupo Beribazu 25 anos (Brasília: Beribazu, 1997), track 6.
2 M.Mauss, ‘Les techniques du corps’, in Sociologie et anthropologie (Paris: Quadrige/Presses Universitaires de
France, 1997), p. 374.
3 www.abadacapoeira.com.br/filosofia.html (accessed March 2003).
4 M.Moraes, CD Brincando na Roda (Salvador: GCAP, 2001), track 4.
5 Revista Capoeira, Vol. II, No. 12, pp. 64–5.
6 D.Rothermund, ‘Einleitung’, in D.Rothermund, Aneignung und Selbstbehauptung. Antworten auf die europdische
Expansion (Munich: R.Oldenbourg, 1999), p. 7.
7 Idem, pp. 4–9.
8 D.Levinson and K.Christensen (eds), Encyclopaedia of World Sport. From Ancient Times to the Present (Santa
Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 1996), p. 640.