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Category Archives: Capoeira in Rio de janeiro

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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31st May 2023
Dictatorship (1964-85), General, Groups, Other states, Pará

In the “hippie era”: the rediscovery of capoeira in Pará in the 1970s

By Luiz Augusto Pinheiro Leal and Fabio Araújo Fernandes. The history of capoeira has for a long time been marred with myths. The most dangerous,…

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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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19th March 2023
Anthropology, Exhibitions, General

Helinä Rautavaara’s Living Collections from Brazil

By Kristina Tohmo. The Helinä Rautavaara Museum was named after the founder, researcher and journalist Helinä Rautavaara (1928-1998). Rautavaara, MA in psychology and a student…

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9th February 2023
Biography, General, Literature, Malandros

The Adventures of a Capoeira in the Magical Realm of Cordel Literature

By Lobisomem (Victor Alvim Itahim Garcia). Born and raised in Rio de Janeiro, I only had contact with cordel literature, whose birthplace is the Northeast…

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16th January 2023
Biography, General, Groups, São Paulo

Mestre Cosmo and his legacy to Piracicaba capoeira

By Letícia Vidor de Sousa Reis. Contemporary capoeira in Piracicaba has as its main representative Claudival da Costa, the late Mestre Cosmo, graduated capoeira master…

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7th November 2022
Capoeira places, Capoeira Rodas, Dictatorship (1964-85), Era Vargas e Populismo (1930-64), General

The Penha Roda

By Matthias Röhrig Assunção. The Penha festival has been celebrated around the Nossa Senhora da Penha church since colonial times. The first chapel was erected on…

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15th September 2022
Capoeira in Rio de janeiro, General, Memory Sites, Rodas, XXI Century

The Edison Carneiro Folklore Museum

The Edison Carneiro Folklore Museum, created in 1968, is heir to the movement institutionalized as the “Campaign for the Defense of Brazilian Folklore”. By Matthias…

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13th August 2022
Biography, Capoeira in Rio de janeiro, General, XXI Century

“The world is a ginga, take it from there to here” – Mestre Mintirinha Obituary

CapoeiraHistory joins in the tributes paid to Mestre Mintinha, who left us on the 7th of August 2022. His legacy and the memory of his…

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28th July 2022
Capoeira places, Classic sources, General, Historiography, Rio de Janeiro

Classic sources of capoeira history: Plácido de Abreu, 1886

The Portuguese writer and poet Plácido de Abreu published the novel  Os capoeiras in 1886. Its introduction entitled “Two Words” represents a fundamental reference for…

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