Samba : resistance in motion /
"Relying on literary theories, the author discusses the role of dance and the body in Afro-Brazilian secular and sacred practices. Ethnographic study addresses samba academies, candomblé, capoeira, and carnival dances"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Bloomington :
Indiana University Press,
[1995], ©1995
Bloomington : c1995 Bloomington : ©1995 Bloomington : [1995] |
| Series: | Arts and politics of the everyday
Arts and politics of the everyday |
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Samba: The Body Articulate
- \\2. Divine Choreography and the Embodiment of Metaphor
- \\3. Headspin: Capoeira's Ironic Inversions
- \\4. Of the Daughters of Gandhi and the Dance of the Chicken
- note: 1 Samba: The Body Articulate
- 2. Divine Choreography and the Embodiment of Metaphor
- 3. Headspin: Capoeira's Ironic Inversions
- 4. Of the Daughters of Gandhi and the Dance of the Chicken.
- 1 Samba: The Body Articulate
- 2. Divine Choreography and the Embodiment of Metaphor
- 3. Headspin: Capoeira's Ironic Inversions
- 4. Of the Daughters of Gandhi and the Dance of the Chicken.