Engolo and Capoeira. From Ethnic to Diasporic Combat Games in the Southern Atlantic

This article provides a re-examination of the main Afrocentric narrative of capoeira origins, the engolo or ‘Zebra Dance’, in light of historical primary sources and new ethnographic evidence gathered during fieldwork in south-west Angola. By examining engolo’s bodily techniques, its socio-historical context and cultural meanings, the piece emphasises its insertion into a pastoral lifestyle and highlights the relatively narrow ethnic character of the practice in Angola. This analysis and the comparison with capoeira helps us to develop certain hypotheses about the formation, migration, and re-invention of diasporic combat games between southern Angola and coastal Brazil, and more broadly, to increase our understanding of how African cultures spread across the southern Atlantic

Sumatra its history and people

Sumatra is remarkably thorough in its coverage and there are exhaustive chapters dealing with the economic life

Sumatra its History andPeople

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Sumatra : sejarah dan masyarakatnya

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Sumatra: its history and people

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Sumatra: sejarah dan masyarakatnya

Buku Sumatra: Sejarah dan Masyarakatnya ini merupakan salah satu buku klasik tentang etnografi Sumatra yang mencakup etnis-etnis yang ada di Sumatra, mulai dari Sumatra Utara hingga Sumatra Selatan dengan pembahasan yang lengkap. Adalah maksud dari buku ini untuk memberikan pemahaman tentang etnografi Sumatra, sejarah Sumatra maupun sejarah pemikiran antropologi khusunya pemikiran orientalis klasik