Capoeira: The silent language of gestures

I intend. to study the Brazilian capoeira from an historic point of view, showing its African heritage and analyzing its meaning from a visual and semantic perspective. It is a sequence of gesture that initially look like a physical exercise, a kind of martial art, but it is really a fight or a danc...

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Autor Principal: Rector, Mónica; Unviersidad de North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Estados Unidos
Formato: info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Idioma: spa
Publicado: Pontificia Universidad Javeriana - Facultad de Comunicación y Lenguaje 2008
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Acceso en línea: http://revistas.javeriana.edu.co/index.php/signoypensamiento/article/view/4585
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Sumario: I intend. to study the Brazilian capoeira from an historic point of view, showing its African heritage and analyzing its meaning from a visual and semantic perspective. It is a sequence of gesture that initially look like a physical exercise, a kind of martial art, but it is really a fight or a dance, depending on the context. Semiotics and kinetics will be used as a framework.