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Preface | |
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Prelude | |
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Playing Capoeira | |
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Inside and Outside the Roda | |
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The Development of Capoeira | |
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Black Culture in Brazil | |
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Mobilizing the Black Community | |
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Resisting Sociology, Structures, and Symbols | |
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A Phenomenological Turn in Ethnography | |
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Plan of the Book | |
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Learning | |
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The Significance of Skills | |
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A Capoeira Class | |
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Skill and Sensitivity | |
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Learning to Walk | |
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The Body's Role in Experience | |
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Learning to Fall | |
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Following in a Mestre's Footsteps | |
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The Advent of the Academy | |
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Moving like a Mestre | |
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Imitative Learning | |
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Coaching the Bananeira | |
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Coaching and Developing Skills | |
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Apprenticeship as a Research Method | |
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Remembering | |
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History in Epic Registers | |
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A Notorious History of Outlaws | |
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The Bambas of Bahia | |
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The Closing of the "Heroic Cycle" | |
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The Long Struggle for Liberation | |
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African Origins and Slave Resistance | |
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The Tragic Life and Death of Mestre Pastinha | |
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Alternative Histories | |
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How Histories are Heard | |
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Singing the Past into Play | |
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The Song Cycle | |
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Singing Commentary on the Game | |
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Mortal Seriousness and Prayer | |
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Shifting "I" Across Time | |
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Ambiguous Times in Song | |
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Playing in a Poetic Projection | |
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Playing | |
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Hearing the Berimbau | |
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The Capoeira Orchestra | |
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Musical Interactions | |
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The Grain of the Berimbau | |
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Listening with a Musician's Hands | |
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Hearing with a Player's Body | |
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The Social Ability of Hearing | |
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Hearing as a Skill | |
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Play with a Sinister Past | |
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Reminders of the Past | |
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The Importance of the Chamada | |
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The Chamada's Dramatic Dynamic | |
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Play and Implied Violence | |
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The Sinister Gravity of Play | |
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A Sense of Tradition | |
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Habits | |
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The Rogue's Swagger | |
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The Ginga | |
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Fundamentals of Cunning | |
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The Despised Waist | |
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A Swaying Stride | |
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Posture and Self-Transformation | |
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Crying at an Adversary's Feet | |
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Closing the Body | |
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Becoming Aware of One's Openness | |
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The Impossibility of Closing | |
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Opening an Adversary | |
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Closing the Body in Candomble | |
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Signing the Cross | |
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Gesture, Posture, and Vulnerability | |
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Walking in Evil | |
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Hard Jokes and Cautionary Tales | |
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Dissembling in a Treacherous World | |
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The Sideways Glance | |
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Seeing Through Shifty Eyes | |
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A Cunning Comportment | |
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Changes | |
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The Limits of Whitening | |
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The Emergence of Capoeira Regional | |
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Critics of Capoeira Regional | |
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Bimba's Students and "Whitening" | |
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Whitening in Brazil | |
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Changes in Movement Style | |
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Capoeira from Middle-Class Bodies | |
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Tearing Out the Shame | |
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Hands, Head, and Legs | |
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Working with Bodies | |
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Reviving Capoeira Angola | |
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Broken Movements, Softened Bodies | |
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Shame and Its Removal | |
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Moved to Change | |
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Conclusion: Lessons from the Roda | |
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Physical Education as Ethnographic Object | |
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The Pragmatism of Practice | |
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Embodiment and Experience | |
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Notes | |
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Bibliography | |
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Index | |