Learning Capoeira: Lessons in Cunning from an Afro-Brazilian Art

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Sensing the Run: The Senses and Distance Running (2006, background): “This paper contributes to the small but growing amount of embodied analysis on the body and sport (Lewis 2000; Rotella 2002; Wacquant 2004; Downey 2005) John Hockey is a Research Fellow at the University of Gloucestershire who has previously published research in the sociology of occupations,…”
Phenomenological Approaches in Anthropology (2011, background): “…Stoller 2008); art, aesthetics, and creativity (Desjarlais 2011, Feld 1990, Gell 1998); music (Berger 1999, 2009; Duranti 2009; Feld 1996); dance (Downey 2005, Throop 2009a); technology (Ingold 2001); digital gambling (Schull 2005) and virtual reality (Csordas 2000); scientific practices and…”
Feeling the way: Notes toward a haptic phenomenology of distance running and scuba diving (2011, background): “Potter‟s (2008) „participant experience‟ dancing ethnography, and Downey‟s (2005) study of capoeira provide strong examples of ethnographic research that embraces and vividly portrays the sensory dimension of physical practices and cultures.”