A construção de um argumento: a capoeira como ferramenta para a liberdade

Abstract

The current essay aim to understand the route of capoeira since the emergence of a typically brazilian identity, and how the individuals move and adapt according to the political-social context. The analysis through the concepts of the everyday life search in the common individual knowledge the elements who compose a culture and how it modifies independently of those agentes will through time. The capoeira is put as the object, and it’s movement is the focus of this research, willing to understand it as a tool in the pursuit of freedom, either physical or mental. I provide a meeting between theoretical concepts and oral stories, contrasting readings with interviews and conversations colected. The changes in the scenario creates a new game between the human power relations, requiring a perception capacity from the individual about the context where those relations occur, changing the tatics at every move. This study was made in order to build the basis to the argument for the documentar “O Passo dos Livres”.