Capoeira: The History of an Afro-Brazilian Martial Art

calinda 58, 209
Calmir, Mestre 183
camará 108
Cascudo, Luís da Câmara 22, 49, 49, 66, 81
Camisa, Mestre (José Tadeu Cardoso) 170, 172
Camisa Roxa, Mestre 170, 183, 186, 206
Campos, Domingos 186
Campos, Lima 14
Canboulay procession 58
candomblé 20, 21, 36, 37, 59, 66, 101, 104, 112–17, 114,
122, 139, 142, 143, 154, 155, 157, 164, 176, 209
candomblé de caboclo 134
Canela, Mestre 187
Canjiquinha, Mestre (Washington Bruno da Silva) 104,
159, 173, 177, 182, 192–8, 198
cantigas de sotaque 110, 134
canto 209
canto de entrada 104
capadócio 209
Capitães de Areia (Captains of the Sand) group 175–80
capoeira 209;
accounts/illustrations of 77–2, 96–3;
acrobatic movements 107;
assimilation of styles 199–6;
attempt to sacralize/re-africanize 176;
as bodily archive of slaves/descendants 22–5;
broadening of audience for 143;
class/ethnic background 202;
competition 196–2;
and consumer attitude 206–12;
contemporary meanings of 203–14;
contemporary styles 191–202;
as cool 206;
core modalities 198;
as cultural resistance 208;
decriminalization of 137;
as derived form of Afro-Brazilian religion 113;
description of xv;
development of 17;
discourse on 2–2, 8;
early accounts/illustrations of 71–7;
and education 180–5;
in Europe 186–3;
as expression of post-modernism 2;
formal differences in 201;
globalization of 23, 184–96, 206, 207;
groups/federations 178–3;
history/origins of 2, 2, 155–60, 202;
and identity 207–13;
INDEX 261
importance of xv;
increased visibility of 105;
integration into market economy 178;
lack of information concerning 71–6;
leadership 202–8;
as a living 173;
low game/high game contrast 201;
magic/sorcery of 114;
master narratives 2, 3–29;
as means of self control/education 153;
in the media 168, 173, 178;
modern development of 2;
modernization of 206–11;
monogenetic origin 53;
origin of term 28;
prayer 19;
race/gender 209;
relationship between mestres 2–7;
repression of 69–4;
as resistance 2;
rituals/traditions 113, 202, 206;
for show 196–2;
spread from regional to national 165–85;
street practice 168–3;
suitability of 16;
teaching methods 201;
traditions 2, 3;
transatlantic approaches 22–8;
uniforms 201;
in USA 186–1;
use of term 69;
as weapon of conflict 203–10;
whitening of 141, 143;
and women 159–4, 180;
as world-wide phenomenon xv–2, 2–3,
see also vadiação
capoeira Angola 2, 23, 47, 104, 106, 128, 129, 130, 132,
141, 145, 173, 181–9, 193, 194, 209;
codification of 151–62;
differences/commonalities with Regional style 198–8;
frame of reference 198–4;
struggle to establish 158–6;
workshops and exhibitions 183
Capoeira Brasil group 172, 180
Capoeira de Angola 197
Capoeira Federations 195
Capoeira Free Style 195
capoeira gangs 75, 78–3, 98, 99;
biographical details of members 87–3;