Engolo and Capoeira. From Ethnic to Diasporic Combat Games in the Southern Atlantic
- Submitting institution
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The University of Essex
- Unit of assessment
- 28 - History
- Output identifier
- 1575
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1590/TEM-1980-542X2020v260302
- Title of journal
- Tempo
- Article number
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- First page
- 522
- Volume
- 26
- Issue
- 3
- ISSN
- 1413-7704
- Open access status
- Compliant
- Month of publication
- September
- Year of publication
- 2020
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- Yes
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- Yes
- English abstract
- This article provides a re-examination of the main Afrocentric narrative of capoeira origins, the engolo or ‘Zebra Dance’, in light of historical primary sources and new ethnographic evidence gathered during fieldwork in south-west Angola. By examining engolo’s bodily techniques, its socio-historical context and cultural meanings, the piece emphasises its insertion into a pastoral lifestyle and highlights the relatively narrow ethnic character of the practice in Angola. This analysis and the comparison with capoeira helps us to develop certain hypotheses about the formation, migration, and re-invention of diasporic combat games between southern Angola and coastal Brazil.
