T J Desch
Biographic Data
| ID | 3433514 |
|---|---|
| NAME | T J Desch |
| GIVEN NAMES | T J |
| FAMILY NAME | Desch |
| SIGNATURE | DESCH T J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Baruch College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Thejogo de capoeiraand the fallacy of 'creole' cultural forms
In the early nineteenth century numerous enslaved Africans in Rio practiced the jogo de capoeira, a dynamic pugilistic game blending kicks and acrobatic defenses into a corporal chess like competition. Scholars typically frame this art form as a Brazilian 'creole' - a hybrid formed from an untraceable bricolage taken from all the kinesthetic repertoires of the hundreds of different African ethnicities represented among the enslaved population of …
Rituals of Resistance
When Sterling Stuckey published his seminal article “Through the Prism of Folklore: The Black Ethos in Slavery” in 1968, little did he realize the impact he was about to make on the study of the “peculiar institution” in the United States. During the next fifteen years, a deluge of books and articles, many of them by the nation's most gifted historians, appeared showing how black culture traced its roots back to Africa. Not a few of these studies…
Thejogo de capoeiraand the fallacy of 'creole' cultural forms
In the early nineteenth century numerous enslaved Africans in Rio practiced the jogo de capoeira, a dynamic pugilistic game blending kicks and acrobatic defenses into a corporal chess like competition. Scholars typically frame this art form as a Brazilian 'creole' - a hybrid formed from an untraceable bricolage taken from all the kinesthetic repertoires of the hundreds of different African ethnicities represented among the enslaved population of …
Rituals of Resistance
When Sterling Stuckey published his seminal article “Through the Prism of Folklore: The Black Ethos in Slavery” in 1968, little did he realize the impact he was about to make on the study of the “peculiar institution” in the United States. During the next fifteen years, a deluge of books and articles, many of them by the nation's most gifted historians, appeared showing how black culture traced its roots back to Africa. Not a few of these studies…
Rituals of Resistance
When Sterling Stuckey published his seminal article “Through the Prism of Folklore: The Black Ethos in Slavery” in 1968, little did he realize the impact he was about to make on the study of the “peculiar institution” in the United States. During the next fifteen years, a deluge of books and articles, many of them by the nation's most gifted historians, appeared showing how black culture traced its roots back to Africa. Not a few of these studies…
Thejogo de capoeiraand the fallacy of 'creole' cultural forms
In the early nineteenth century numerous enslaved Africans in Rio practiced the jogo de capoeira, a dynamic pugilistic game blending kicks and acrobatic defenses into a corporal chess like competition. Scholars typically frame this art form as a Brazilian 'creole' - a hybrid formed from an untraceable bricolage taken from all the kinesthetic repertoires of the hundreds of different African ethnicities represented among the enslaved population of …
Anthropology (1 work) · Archaeology (1 work) · Bricolage (1 work) · Cape (1 work) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (1 work) · Essentialism (1 work) · Ethnic group (1 work) · Ethnology (1 work) · Ethos (1 work) · Fallacy (1 work)