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# Ring of Liberation: Deceptive Discourse in Brazilian Capoeira

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Very good. A bit rough in some ways.
  

*by G***G on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 18, 2012*

This book remains one of the most complete overviews of Capoeira to the English speaking initiate. It's a good guide for ignorant rookies in that respect. The outsider-looking-in narrative really relates to a lot for the average American jumping feet first into Brazilian sub-culture.However, I got the impression at times that this book is little more than a reprinted master's thesis. As the phrase goes, "A mile wide and an inch deep". The book does a good job at helping you get into the mindset and tropes present in Capoeira culture. So it will help you understand those invisible rules no one seems to ever tell you about. But beware, its not going to solve every culture clash, political/historical perspective, or ego-game a Mestre is going to throw your way.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Biased, perhaps, but not an "agenda of subjugation"
  

*by C***) on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 20, 1999*

I used this book, along with a host of other books, transcripts, articles and recordings of capoeira to complete my undergraduate thesis in anthropology.  Regarding an earlier post here, i don't think that Lewis was  trying to necessarily undermine the black African origins of capoeira, but  rather his experiences with capoeiristas around Brazil led him to focus on  the wholly Brazilian cultural aspects (samba, too, is a cultural phenomenon  with roots in Africa).  While i do belive that his treatment of the African  origins of capoeira were sketchy, this is to be expected as the data on  capoeira's African origins is not very clear, and to the best of my  knowledge is to date a matter of conjecture.  The only truth regarding that  matter is that capoeira did come from Africa with the (primarily West  African) slaves and developed into modern capoeira while in Brazil. This  last part, "in Brazil", is something that I stress in the sense  that although many Caribbean and South American nations received slaves  from the same parts of Africa, only Brazil's slaves and mulattos produced  capoeira.More to the point of this type of entry: the book is a definite  must-read for anyone (capoeirista or not) interested in the modern  expressions of african diasporan culture.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Capoeira at the border to Brazil.
  

*by A***) on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 4, 1999*

Yes, I think this book deserves five stars, because it gave me insight; both professional and personal.  Training Capoeira for seven years (including two trips to Brazil for the same reason) has taken me to the  strange border between two cultures: my own Danish average European  socio-historic background, and the Afro-brazilian transcultural vegetation  in which Capoeira flourishes.  Alouring - and as Lewis notes: deceptive,  Capoeira as a performance reveals conflictuality on the Afro-brazilian  social and historical level, which differs from the writers own background;  in this case quite similar to my case.  The task of relating to this  difference is met by Ring of Liberation through respect of the ontic 'way'  of the capoeirista, and at the same time maintaining an epistemic approach.  What this means, is that Ring of Liberation can be read by the  intellectual layman as well as the non-brazilian capoeira enthusiast, as a  guide to experiences already had or about to happen...great stuff!

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