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Capoeira: Check out this Interactive Picture with Info and Videos
If you are interested in Brazil and the Portuguese language, you must have heard about Capoeira, the Brazilian Martial Art that mixes music, dance, fight movements, culture, and is an exercise in living in community.
I created the interactive picture below to tell you more about Capoeira. Hover your mouse over the picture and you will see several small icons: circles, question marks, exclamation marks, and video buttons. Each icon brings you something different. All you have to do is hover your mouse over the icons and click the link or video they offer you.
When capoeira would land you in prison
(Source, click to see more visual references)
Between 1890, after the proclamation of the Republic of Brazil, and the final years of the 1920’s, capoeira references could be found, not in cultural literature of the time, but in the Penal Code of the Republic. The name capoeira itself became a pejorative term applied to vagrants, thieves and undesirables, but let’s return to this theme later while we take a look at the possible etymologies of the word.
