Embodying Brazil: An Ethnography of Diasporic Capoeira
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Craig Owen is a lecturer in psychology at St. Mary’s University, Twickenham. His PhD research focused on the performance of masculine identities in capoeira and Latin and ballroom dance classes. Currently, he is collaborating on new research projects that explore the negotiation of gender identities in different social contexts. Searching for fieldwork sites to explore the performance of embodied masculinities, I found a video (Fig. 1) on the website of the capoeira group led by Claudio Campos (one of the authors and central informants in Sara Delamont and Neil Stephens’ Embodying Brazil):
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