This study involves the author's practice of and reflection on the arts of Capoeira and Candomblé and culminates in the idea of an "other logic", interrelating it with the topics of post-colonial and diaspora studies.
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Part I. CAPOEIRA: PLAYFULLY PRACTICING PHILOSOPHY
- Chapter One. A Brief History of the Art
- Chapter Two. Capoeira Becoming
- Chapter Three. How the Art Is Becoming
- Chapter Four. How the Becoming Is Processual
- Chapter Five. Nonlinear and Sinuous is the Road
- Postscript to Chapter Five. Capoeira, Close to the Earth
- Part II CANDOMBLÉ: LIVING PHILOSOPHY, PHILOSOPHICAL LIVING
- Chapter Six. Rhythms and Rituals of Resistance
- Chapter Seven. Hegemonic Pressure
- Chapter Eight. Does Syncretism Give an Adequate Account?
- Chapter Nine. More Complex Than Meets the Eye
- Chapter Ten. Process: Perpetual Change within Stability
- Chapter Eleven. The Dichotomies Become More Pliable
- Part III. THOSE OTHER LOGICS WITHIN CULTURAL PROCESSES
- Chapter Twelve. Qualifying the Process: An Impossible Task?
- Chapter Thirteen. Attempting to Refine the Figure Further
- Chapter Fourteen. Still in Search of Process
- Part IV. CAPOEIRA AND CANDOMBLÉ AS CULTURAL LOGICS
- Chapter Fifteen. Brazilian Haziness
- Chapter Sixteen. Capoeira, Again
- Chapter Seventeen. Candomblé, One More Time
- Afterthoughts
- Appendix A
- Appendix B
- References
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