Capoeira : a history of an Afro-Brazilian martial art

• Tác giả: Assunção Matthias Röhrig
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN: 0714650315 (hbk.)
• ISBN: 0714680869 (pbk.)
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 793.31981 Social, folk, national dancing
• Thông tin xuất bản: London ; New York : Routledge, 2005.
• Mô tả vật lý: xiii, 267 pages : , illustrations ; , 25 cm.
• Bộ sưu tập: Kiến trúc, Nghệ thuật, Hội họa
• ID: 271013
• Chủ đề: 1. Capoeira (Dance)--History; 2. Capoeira (Dance)--Social aspects--Brazil

Includes bibliographical references (pages [247]-258) and index.

Tóm tắt

"Capoeira: The History of an Afro-Brazilian Martial Art explores capoeira as a field of confrontation where different struggles that divide Brazilian society are played out. It contains a first English language scholarly account of capoeira's early history and development to the present day."--BOOK JACKET.