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  • Reconfiguring Capoeira

    Global Transformations of an Afro-Brazilian Art

    Edited by Sergio González Varela ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    In the past two and a half decades, capoeira has experienced a remarkable global expansion. However, it’s challenging to quantify its full extent. This book aims to explore the diverse reconfigurations and resignifications that capoeira has undergone in the new millennium. It brings together a diverse group of experts from various disciplines, including anthropology, history, ethnomusicology, ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Capoeira, Mobility, and Tourism

    Preserving an Afro-Brazilian Tradition in a Globalized World

    by Sergio González Varela ...
    Series series The Anthropology of Tourism: Heritage, Mobility, and Society
    In Capoeira, Mobility, and Tourism: Preserving an Afro-Brazilian Tradition in a Globalized World, Sergio González Varela examines the mobility of capoeira leaders and practitioners. He analyzes their motivations and spirituality as well as their ability to reconfigure social practices. Varela draws on tourism mobilities, multisited ethnography, global networks, heritage, and the anthropology of ... Read more

    $33.19 USD

  • Power in Practice

    The Pragmatic Anthropology of Afro-Brazilian Capoeira

    by Sergio González Varela ...
    Considering the concept of power in capoeira, an Afro-Brazilian ritual art form, Varela describes ethnographically the importance that capoeira leaders (mestres) have in the social configuration of a style called Angola in Bahia, Brazil. He analyzes how individual power is essential for an understanding of the modern history of capoeira, and for the themes of embodiment, play, cosmology, and ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • Not-Knowing

    An Anthropological Account

    by Diana Espírito Santo, Sergio González Varela ...
    Ethnographers of socio-cultural phenomena routinely face moments in the field that evoke no answers for our interlocutors, or in which answers come in entirely different forms from those anthropologists and other scholars expect. The over-emphasis on structure and meaning in social science, and anthropology in particular, has inhibited the study of a-conceptual or 'darker' spaces of cultural ... Read more

    $39.39 USD

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    Series series New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century
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  • Metamodernism

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  • The Superhumanities

    Historical Precedents, Moral Objections, New Realities

    by Jeffrey J. Kripal ...
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  • The Ontological Turn

    An Anthropological Exposition

    by Martin Holbraad, Morten Axel Pedersen ...
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  • Relationality

    An Emergent Politics of Life Beyond the Human

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  • The Social Life of Spirits

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  • Education for Critical Consciousness

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    Famous for his advocacy of 'critical pedagogy', Paulo Freire was Latin America's foremost educationalist, a thinker and writer whose work and ideas continue to exert enormous influence in education throughout the world today. Education for Critical Consciousness is the main statement of Freire's revolutionary method of education. It takes the life situation of the learner as its starting point and ... Read more

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