Meet the authors who publish their texts on CapoeiraHistory
Besides being a consultant for the project, Fernando Campelo Cavalcanti de Albuquerque, Mestre Gato, participates in CapoeiraHistory with the article The Senzala Group and the Capoeira Safeguard.
Marcos Leitão De Almeida has a PhD in African History from Northwestern University, where he was awarded for the best doctoral thesis in 2021. His work has been published in the Journal of African History, Azania, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of African History, and Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Anthropology (archaeology section). He is a professor at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora.
He is currently working on a book about the history of slavery in ancient Central Africa, which will be published in Brazil in 2024. Almeida published in CapoeiraHistory the article What do we know about the south of Angola between 8000 BCE and 1400 CE? And how can we know more?
Victor Alvim Itahim Garcia is a capoeirista, composer, percussionist and singer.
Lobisomem, as he is also known, featured CapoeiraHistory with the verses from the cordel As Valentias de Madame Satã and later also with the post The Adventures of a Capoeira in the Magical Realm of Cordel Literature.
Filipe Amado is a historian graduated from the University of São Paulo. He has a master’s degree in Brazilian Studies (IEB USP), with a dissertation on capoeira, pernada and samba in São Paulo. He is a capoeira teacher in the Projete Liberdade Capoeira group, master of drums in the carnival cordon Kolombolo Diá Piratininga, in addition to being a history teacher in public schools in São Paulo. Researcher and lecturer on the history of capoeira, Filipe Amado maintains the História, Capoeira e Samba.
CapoeiraHistory published two of his articles:
Capoeira in the streets of São Paulo in the first decades of the 20th century (2021);
Celso de Brito holds a PhD in Social Anthropology from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS). He is nows Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Sciences of the Federal University of Piauí (UFPI) and teaches on the Graduate Anthropology Programme. He has been a capoeira teacher since 2018, being responsible for the Grupo de Capoeira Angola Zimba in Teresina, Piauí.
In CapoeiraHistory, Celso published his article Capoeira politics in Teresina, Piauí: lineages, federations and political parties.
Stefania Capone is an anthropologist, Master in Social Anthropology from the Museu Nacional/UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro (1991), PhD in Ethnology from the Université de Paris X, Nanterre (France) in 1997. She is currently Directrice de Recherche (Research Director) at CNRS , in Paris. His research focuses on the areas of religious anthropology, ethnic studies, African-American cultures, patrimonialization, migration, and religious transnationalization. She is the author, among others, of Searching for Africa in Brazil: Power and Tradition in Candomblé (Duke University Press, 2010) and Os Yoruba do Novo Mundo. Religião, etinicidade e nacionalismo negro nos Estados Unidos (Palas, 2011).
Capone contributed to CapoeiraHistory with his article Between ubuntu and milonga: the Bantu legacy in Brazil.
Gabriel da Silva Vidal Cid is a sociologist with a PhD in Sociology from UERJ. His research focus is capoeira, with interests in the fields of collective memory, cultural policies and cultural heritage. He is a teacher, researcher and consultant, focusing on studies in Sociology and Cultural History. He participates of the Coordination of the research group Arte, Cultura e Poder.
He contributed to CapoeiraHistory with two articles:
Master Rui Charuto, in partnership with Mestre Bebeto;
The imprisonment of capoeiras on Ilha Grande, with Myrian Sepúlveda.
Jorge Columá has a PhD in Physical Education and Culture. He serves as Director of Teaching for the Brazilian Confederation of MMA Sports and as Consultant for the Working Group for the Safeguarding of Capoeira, for IPHAN/RJ. He is the author of Da Navalha ao Berimbau: Capoeira e Malandragem no Rio de Janeiro (Arole Cultural, 2020).
He contributed to CapoeiraHistory with the article Master Zé Pedro, in partnership with Thiago de Souza and Rômulo Reis.
Marcelo Cardoso da Costa is a professor of Sociology (IFRJ – Duque de Caxias Campus) and a PhD candidate in Social Memory (UNIRIO/PPGMS). He holds a Master’s degree in Urban and Regional Planning (IPPUR/UFRJ) and a Bachelor’s degree in Social Sciences (IFCS/UFRJ) and in Geography (UFRJ).
He published in CapoeiraHistory the article Master Paulo Gomes.
Pedro Cunha holds a degree in Social Communication from the Catholic University of Santos and a Masters in Social History from the University of São Paulo. He currently works as Coordinator of Content and Innovation at Fundação Iochpe.
He is the author of the book Capoeiras e Valentões na História de São Paulo (Alameda, 2015) and offered to CapoeiraHistory the article The Diaspora of Rio de Janeiro’s capoeiras during the First Republic: the case of São Paulo.
Sara Delamont is from Cardiff University, UK. She holds a PhD from the University of Edinburgh, and studied Archaeology and Anthropology at Girton College, Cambridge.
Among her publications is Embodying Brazil: An Ethnography of Diasporic Capoeira, co-authored with Neil Stephens and Mestre Claudio Campos.
Delamont presents in CapoeiraHistory his article An Old Attack on UK capoeira.
Juan Diego Díaz holds a PhD in Ethnomusicology from the University of British Columbia and is a professor at the University of California, Davis. Among other publications, he is the author of Africanness in Action (Oxford University Press, 2021).
He presents in CapoeiraHistory his article The Musical Legacy of Mestre Paraná’s Capoeira.
Fabio Araújo Fernandes holds a PhD in Anthropology from the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC). In capoeira, he is a disciple of Mestre Umoi, from Grupo União na Capoeira, and Contramestre in Freising, Germany.
He contributed to CapoeiraHistory with the article In the “hippie era”: the rediscovery of capoeira in Pará in the 1970s, in partnership with Luiz Augusto Leal.
Daniel Granada da Silva Ferreira is a professor in the Department of Natural and Social Sciences at the Federal University of Santa Catarina. He holds a PhD in Ethnology from the University of Paris and a PhD in History from the University of Essex (United Kingdom). He holds a Master’s degree in Studies of Latin American Societies from the Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris III, and a Master’s degree in Sociology and Anthropology from the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro.
He offered to CapoeiraHistory the article Capoeira, the transnational dialogue of bodies in motion.
Loran Hoarau is a historian. He works on research projects that relate History, Heritage and Identity(ies) in Réunion.
Hoarau published in CapoeiraHistory the text The moring between disappearance and reinvention, written in partnership with Emmanuel Souffrin.
Ana Paula Höfling holds a PhD in Culture and Performance. She holds an MFA in Dance from the University of California, Los Angeles, and an MFA in Dance from the University of Hawaii at Manoa, as well as a BA in Linguistics from the University of California, Berkeley.
She is a Professor in the College of Visual and Performing Arts at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, and the author of Staging Brazil: Choreographies of Capoeira (Wesleyan University Press, 2019) and Performing Brazil: Essays on Culture, Identity, and the Performing Arts (University of Wisconsin Press, 2015).
She contributed to CapoeiraHistory with the article Anníbal Burlamaqui, customs officer and poet; Zuma, capoeira and boxeur (1898-1965).
Luiz Augusto Pinheiro Leal is a Doctor in Ethnic and African Studies, from the Federal University of Pará (UFPA), and Contramestre of Malungo Centro de Capoeira Angola. Take the opportunity to download his book Capoeira, identidade e gênero: ensaios sobre a história social da capoeira no Brasil, released in 2009.
He contributed to CapoeiraHistory with the article In the “hippie era”: the rediscovery of capoeira in Pará in the 1970s, in partnership with Fabio Fernandes.
A capoeira teacher since 1979, José Roberto Lima actively participates in several entities dedicated to the organization of this sport in Rio de Janeiro. Mestre Bebeto has been a member of the IPHAN Capoeira Safeguard Council since 2014.
Besides acting as a project consultant, Mestre Bebeto participates in CapoeiraHistory with an article about Mestre Rui Charuto in partnership with Gabriel Cid.
Antonio Luiz dos Santos Campos wrote for CapoeiraHistory the article Black Shirt.
Cinézio Feliciano Peçanha, known as Mestre Cobra Mansa and Cobrinha, is an Angolan capoeira master formed by Mestre Moraes. He holds a BA in Physical Education from the Catholic University of Salvador and a PhD in Knowledge Dissemination from Federal University of Bahia. He has experience in the field of Physical Education, with an emphasis on Capoeira Angola and African martial arts, Bantu culture and Bantu cosmology identity and ancestry
Besides being a consultant for the project, Cinézio Peçanha, participates in CapoeiraHistory with his article, written in partnership with Ricardo Nascimento, The Letters: Neves e Sousa, Câmara Cascudo and the Engolo Myth.
Marcelo Backes Navarro Stotz is a Physical Education graduate, specialising in Research in Exercise Physiology from the Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná. He has a Masters in Physical Education from the Federal University of Santa Catarina. In capoeira, he is known as Mestre KB Lera.
He offered to CapoeiraHistory his article Master Sinhozinho.
Luiz Carlos de Matos Bonates is a graduated capoeira master from the Grupo Cativeiro Capoeira in 1996, becoming known as Master KK Bonates. He was founder and president of the Amazonian Federation of Capoeira and integrates its Council of Masters. He is founder and Master General of the Associação Cultural Desportiva e de Pesquisas da Capoeira – Grupo Matumbé Capoeira.
He was the Director of Culture of the Brazilian Confederation of Capoeira (1997 and 2007). He was recognised as a Master of Popular Knowledge in 2006 by the Palmares Foundation/Ministry of Culture.
He is Doctor and Master in Botany from the Federal University of Amazonas. He is a full researcher at the National Institute for Amazonian Research (INPA). Holder of chair number 1 of the Instituto Geográfico e Histórico do Amazonas (Geographic and Historical Institute of Amazonas).
He offered CapoeiraHistory his article Prata Preta: an exiled capoeira.
Nestor Sezefredo dos Passos Neto, known in capoeira as Master Nestor Capoeira, besides being a consultant for the project, participates in CapoeiraHistory with his study on Mestre Leopoldina, which we have published in 3 posts:
Rômulo Costa Mattos wrote for CapoeiraHistory the article The construction of the memory about Sete Coroas, the most famous “criminal” of the First Republic.
Ricardo Nascimento contributed to CapoeiraHistory with his article, in partnership with Cinézio Peçanha (Mestre Cobra Mansa), The Letters: Neves e Sousa, Câmara Cascudo and the Engolo Myth.
Maria Luísa Pimenta Neves, known in capoeira as Lilu, has lived in Bahia since 2000. She is a capoeira mestra, having started her practice in Minas Gerais in 1992. She has a master’s degree in Education (UFBA), is a researcher, the author of translations of three books by Frede Abreu into English, the writer of a children’s book about capoeira, a cultural producer and a fan of Frederico José de Abreu. Contact: [email protected].
Lilu wrote the Frede Abreu post for CapoeiraHistory.
Tanure Ojaide is the Frank Porter Graham Professor of African Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA. Educated in Ibadan and Syracuse, Tanure Ojaide has published twenty-one collections of poetry, as well as novels, short stories, memoirs and academic works.
He has won the Association of Nigerian Authors Poetry Prize four times: 1988, 1994, 2003 and 2011. His other awards include the Commonwealth Poetry Prize for the Africa Region, the All-Africa Okigbo Poetry Prize and the BBC Arts and Africa Poetry Prize. In 2016 he won both the African Literature Association’s Fonlon-Nichols Award for Excellence in Writing and the Nigerian National Order of Merit Award for the Humanities. In 2018, he was co-winner of the Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa. He has won the National Endowment for the Arts grant, twice the Fulbright grant and twice the Carnegie African Diaspora Program grant.
On CapoeiraHistory, Ojaide published the post African Battle Traditions of Insult.
Roberto Pereira is a documentary filmmaker, capoeirista, film director from the Darcy Ribeiro film school and holds a PhD in Comparative History from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). He directed and scripted films shown at film festivals and national and international events, including O Dono da Capoeira (2014); Do Ringue aos Palcos and O Jogo da Navalha (2023). He was a doctoral trainee at Harvard University’s Department of History. He is author of the books: A capoeira do Maranhão: entre as décadas de 1870 e 1930 (IPHAN-MA, 2019) and Rodas Negras: capoeira, samba, teatro e identidade nacional (1930 – 1960) (Perspectiva, 2023).
He published in CapoeiraHistory the posts
Sailors, Moleques and “Heroes”: Capoeira in Maranhão in the First Republic;
From the Ring to the Stage – A movie about Master Artur Emídio de Oliveira;
Letícia Vidor de Sousa Reis holds a Bachelor’s degree in History, a Master’s and a PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of São Paulo (USP). From 1988 to 2006, she taught History at the Methodist University of Piracicaba and since 1986 has been a permanent teacher at the Edson Rontani school of the São Paulo state school system. She is the author of A capoeira no Brasil: o mundo de pernas para o ar (3rd ed. 2010).
CapoeiraHistory brings two of his articles:
There are women in the roda: Female empowerment in capoeira (2020);
Rômulo Reis has a PhD in Exercise and Sports Sciences from the State University of Rio de Janeiro, a Master’s degree in Exercise and Sports Sciences and a specialist in Sports Administration and Marketing from Gama Filho University.
He wrote for CapoeiraHistory the article Master Zé Pedro, in partnership with Thiago de Souza and Jorge Columá.
Geisa Rodrigues holds a Masters in Communication from the Universidade Federal Fluminense and a PhD in Literature from PUC-Rio. She has been a professor at the Department of Social Communication at UFF since 2003 and an associate researcher at BITS – Núcleo de Pesquisa, Produção e Extensão Multimídia da Comunicação Social.
She is the author of the most comprehensive study on Madame Satã: As múltiplas faces de Madame Satã: estéticas e políticas do corpo (Eduff, 2013).
She wrote for CapoeiraHistory Madame, the Satan of Lapa District, an introductory text to her book.
Michael J. Ryan is a visiting research professor in the Anthropology department at Binghamton University, New York, United States.
In CapoeiraHistory Ryan published his article Ah Mundo Barquisimeto: A Provisional History of Garrote – part 1.
Myrian Sepúlveda dos Santos (in memorian) was a professor at UERJ and coordinator of the Art, Culture and Power Research Group. She had a PhD in Sociology from the New School for Social Research; Master’s degree in Sociology from IUPERJ and Bachelor’s degree in History from UFF.
Her area of research was the sociology of culture. She published articles and books on social theory, memory, identity, cultural practices and policies. Her most recent publication was Memória Coletiva e Justiça Social (Garamond, 2021)
CapoeiraHistory published the article The imprisonment of capoeiras on Ilha Grande, written with Gabriel Cid.
Carlos Eugênio Líbano Soares holds a BA in History from UFRJ and an MA and PhD from UNICAMP/SP. His research on 19th century capoeira and his books A negregada instituição (1999) and A capoeira escrava (2001) became core references for the history of capoeira. He also researched and published more widely about enslaved Africans in Brazil. Today he is an associate professor at UFRRJ.
Carlos Eugênio contributed to CapoeiraHistory with the post The party of order and disorder: capeiras and the political struggle at the imperial court of Rio de Janeiro 1870-1890.
Emmanuel Souffrin is an ethnologist and director of ESOI – Indian Ocean Ethnosociological Studies at Côte D’Azur University.
CapoeiraHistory published his text The moring between disappearance and reinvention, written in partnership with Loran Hoarau.
Thiago de Paula dos Anjos de Souza has a Bachelor’s degree in Physical Education.
Thiago de Souza published in CapoeiraHistory his article about Master Zé Pedro, writtenin partnership with Jorgue Columá and Rômulo Reis.
Julio Cesar de Tavares holds a Master’s degree in Sociology from the University of Brasília, a Doctorate in Anthropology from the University of Texas, Austin, and a Postdoctoral Fellow as a Rockefeller Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Black Music Research Center in Chicago. He is a member of the Working Group for the Safeguarding of Capoeira at IPHAN’s Directorate of Intangible Heritage. He is a Professor of Anthropology at the Universidade Federal Fluminense.
He has written Dança de Guerra (Nandyala, 2013) and Gramáticas das Corporeidades Afrodiaspóricas: Ethnographic Perspectives (Appris, 2020).
He provided CapoeiraHistory with the article Where did we go, huh!
Dra. Sarah Thomas is Senior Lecturer in the School of Historical Studies at Birkbeck, University of London. Her book Witnessing Slavery: Art and Travel in the Age of Abolition, was published in 2019 by the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. She has published widely on slavery and visual culture, and the art history and museology of the British empire.
In CapoeiraHistory Ryan published his article Augustus Earle’s Negroes fighting, Brazils.
Kristina Tohmo has a Master’s degree in Cultural Anthropology. She works as a producer for the Helinä Rautavaara Museum, in Finland.
She wrote for CapoeiraHistory the text Helinä Rautavaara’s Living Collections from Brazil.
Luiz Renato Vieira, in addition to being a consultant for the project, participates in CapoeiraHistory with his article Thoughts on Capoeira in Present Time.
Katya Welowski, known in capoeira as Camarão, is Professor of Cultural Anthropology and Dance at Duke University in the United States. She is the author of articles such as “Professionalizing Capoeira: The Politics of Play in Twenty-First-Century Brazil” (Latin American Perspectives. Vol. 39, No. 2, 2012); “From ‘Moral Disease’ to ‘National Sport’: Race, Nation and Capoeira in Brazil” (Sports Culture in Latin American History, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015) and “Imagining Brazil in Africa: capoeira’s transatlantic roots and routes” (Capoeira and Globalization: Interdisciplinary Studies of an Afro-Brazilian Cultural Form. Cambridge University Press).
She contributed to CapoeiraHistory with the article Tourinho of Tavares Bastos: birth of a capoeirista.