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Perspectivas Na Malícia

"Perspectivas Na Malícia" is a project I did during three weeks of study and training in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. The research tackles the following question: Malícia is the basis of capoeira, the concept from which all elements of the game originate and to which they point. Capoeira Topázio and Fundação Internacional de Capoeira Angola (FICA) are two capoeira groups with extremely different styles of play, training, and music. Do these two groups have a fundamentally different idea of malícia, or do they share the same concept but interpret it in different ways?
 
The paper is about 50 pages long and in Portuguese; I'm in the process of translating it to English and will post it up here when I finish!

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