'Learning Capoeira' is an ethnographic study of a African Brazilian martial art that combines dance & acrobatics in a bid to control space & knock down an oppon

Nestor Capoeira, a long-time teacher of capoeira and noted mestre (master), begins this revised edition of his bestseller with an in-depth history of the Brazil

Capoeira is simultaneously a dance, a fight, and a game. Created by the Africans brought to Brazil as slaves beginning in 1500, capoeira was forbidden by law bu