CAPOEIRA: LÓCUS DE CULTURA E RESISTÊNCIA

Abstract

This study aims to analyze capoeira as a manifestation of culture and resistance. Cultural elements are certainly a type of substance that survives time and the transformative socio-historical process. In this sense, capoeira, as well as many other expressions of the objectivity and subjectivity of the slave societies that survived the bourgeois revolutions scattered all over the world, being adapted, re-elaborated, re-signified according to the private interests of the new ruling classes, gain new meanings, Goals and meanings in the scene of the development of Brazilian bourgeois society, forged strongly by the unique features of Latin American capitalism. Between fight, play and / or dance; Sport, art and culture capoeira expresses the Afro-Brazilian culture forged in the process of national historical, cultural, economic and political development. Unique representation of Latin American economic, social and historical development in the country. Thus, the objective of the research is to analyze the historical constitution of culture and resistance in Brazil through capoeira. It is based on the history of capoeira in Brazil and the reports of some capoeiristas of the Cultural Center of Capoeira Águia Branca, that is the universe of the research. The research has essentially qualitative character, with theoretical foundation in dialectical historical materialism. Documentary, bibliographic research and field research were used, with a semi-structured interview. It was possible to perceive, with the result of the research, that there is a historical load of capoeira as a cultural manifestation of struggle and resistance. However, in its emergence, it is clear the conception of capoeira and social struggles, but nowadays, through cooptation of the State and in the development of Brazilian society, capoeira converges with some social movements, being present in the scenario in the social struggles, but The capoeiristas do not have a collective consciousness, a class consciousness. In the context of culture, it still manifests as an expression of resistance, showing its history and the daily life of capoeiristas, mostly workers. However, much has to advance in the collective class consciousness, with ideals of political and human emancipation