BARBOSA NETO, G. V.; http://lattes.cnpq.br/9935495497197607; BARBOSA NETO, Gilvan Veiga.
Résumé:
The roda de capoeira was listed by Unesco, in 2014, as Intangible Cultural Heritage of
Humanity, having already been inventoried and safeguarded as a master craft. There are
three established styles of capoeira: capoeira angola, capoeira regional and capoeira
contemporary. However, from the 2000s onwards, a new denomination comes to the fore
in capoeira, which is not a new style of capoeira or a new way of playing the game itself.
It is the emergence of what became known as capoeira gospel, that is, capoeira works
(groups and associations) self-styled Christians that emerged spontaneously in various
parts of Brazil and that use capoeira as a form of evangelization. The main objective of
this work is to analyze gospel capoeira in the city of João Pessoa under the theoretical-
methodological prism of interpretive anthropology and performance anthropology, in line
with the local historical context and that of collective representations. Therefore, through
the ethnographic record carried out with a group of evangelical capoeiristas from that
city, we sought to: understand, from the analysis of their modes of expression and
symbolic forms, what are the meanings inscribed in this practice; present the context of
its emergence, its historical path and its main masters; to investigate whether fundamental
elements inherent to secular capoeira were being suppressed or recontextualized in the
case studied; to describe and analyze the performative, performative and performativity
forms present in gospel capoeira, paying attention to its multivocal and multisensory
aspects, highlighting emerging meanings during the performance.
