Becoming a Capoeirista

A Situational Approach to Interpreting a Foreign Cultural Good

Bibliographic Data

ID2275012
AuthorsDanielle Hedegard (University of Arizona, corresponding author)
Year2012
Volume82
Issue4
Pages510-531
Publication date2012-11-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSociological Inquiry (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0038-0245 • E-ISSN: 1475-682X
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1475-682x.2012.00415.x
OpenAlexW1913525915
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited40

In this manuscript, I examine an understudied mechanism that shapes audience reception and reinterpretation of foreign cultural objects-local interactional situations. I present a case study of how this situation of interaction shapes how one group of students in the United States constructs the meanings of capoeira-a Brazilian martial art. Participant observation data reveal that neither students' personal motives as consumers nor broad 'American' cultural codes fully explain capoeira culture in this group. Instead, capoeira students in this group reinterpret capoeira through a strict style of interaction, which produced a 'preservationist' capoeira culture-hierarchical, conformist, and rigidly bound as 'Brazilian.' This culture becomes concerned with preservation because it allows them to maintain their shared ground for interaction

Aesthetics · Art · Conformist · Epistemology · Ethnography · Linguistics · Martial arts · Pedagogy · Political science · Reinterpretation · Situational ethics · Sociology · Style (visual arts) · Target culture · Visual arts · Anthropology · Law · Martial Arts: Techniques, Psychology, and Education · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology · Sociology and Norbert Elias · Sports, Gender, and Society

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