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Category Archives: 1st Republic

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29th February 2024
1st Republic, General, Maranhão, Other martial arts, Other states

The jackknife game

By Roberto Pereira. Little is known about the use of the jackknife in capoeira of former times. Some scholars attribute its origin to a Portuguese…

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17th July 2023
1st Republic, Black Atlantic, General, Maranhão, Other states

Sailors, Moleques and “Heroes”: Capoeira in Maranhão in the First Republic

By Roberto Pereira. When the gunboat Lamego, of the Brazilian Navy, left São Luís, on 18th June 1887, the city breathed a sigh of relief.…

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22nd April 2023
1st Republic, Capoeira places, General, Malandros, Rio de Janeiro

The imprisonment of capoeiras on Ilha Grande

By Myrian Sepúlveda dos Santos and Gabriel da Silva Vidal Cid. Background The history of the Dois Rios Correctional Colony, established in 1894 on the…

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28th July 2022
1st Republic, Bahia, Biography, Classic sources, Era Vargas e Populismo (1930-64), General, Other states

Classic sources of capoeira history: The Manuscripts of Mestre Noronha

Unlike many masters of his generation, Daniel Coutinho, better known as Mestre Noronha, could read and write. It was thus possible for him to leave…

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25th June 2021
1st Republic, General, São Paulo

Capoeira in the streets of São Paulo in the first decades of the 20th century

By Filipe Amado. Today we know that the history of capoeira is not restricted to Rio de Janeiro and Bahia. There is evidence in many…

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27th February 2021
1st Republic, Ethnic racial relations, General, Historiography, São Paulo

The Diaspora of Rio de Janeiro’s capoeiras during the First Republic: the case of São Paulo

By Pedro Cunha. When we think of the historical process by which capoeira developed, we often overlook the rich exchanges that took place among people…

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29th January 2021
1st Republic, Biography, General, Old Malandros, Rio de Janeiro

Prata Preta: an exiled capoeira

By KK Bonates – Luiz Carlos de Matos Bonates On 10 November 1904, a series of popular protests took place on the streets of Rio…

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11th May 2020
1st Republic, General, Old Malandros, Rio de Janeiro

Seven Crowns

By Rômulo Costa Mattos. The construction of the memory about Sete Coroas, the most famous “criminal” of the First Republic At the beginning of the…

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