Katya Wesolowski

Book · January 17, 2023 This ethnographic memoir weaves together the history of capoeira, recent transformations in the practice, and personal insights from author Katya Wesolowski's thirty years of experience as a capoeirista. ... Open Access Cite

Imagining Brazil in Africa: Capoeira's Transatlantic Roots and Routes

Journal Article Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology · September 1, 2020 This article examines African cities as the newest nodes in the transnational circuitry of capoeira. An imagined Africa has long been an integral part of capoeira practice in Brazil, but only recently have Brazilian capoeiristas begun traveling to Africa. ... Full text Cite

Ethnography In-Sight: Diasporic Imaginings

Journal Article Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology · September 1, 2020 Full text Cite

Body Games: Capoeira and Ancestry

Journal Article JOURNAL OF LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN ANTHROPOLOGY · March 1, 2017 Open Access Link to item Cite

Jogo de Corpo: Capoeira e Ancestralidade / Body Games: Capoeira and Ancestry, 2013. A film by Richard Pakleppa, Matthias Röhrig Assunção and Mestre Cobra Mansa. 87 min. Color. Distributed by Manganga Produções.

Other The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology · 2017 Cite

From “moral disease” to “national sport”: Race, nation, and capoeira In Brazil

Chapter · January 1, 2015 Cite

Professionalizing capoeira: The politics of play in twenty-first-century Brazil

Journal Article Latin American Perspectives · March 1, 2012 The global expansion of capoeira has radically transformed the practice and reach of the Afro-Brazilian fight/dance/game known as capoeira. Once a weapon of the weak, informally learned by male slaves on the streets and outlawed by Brazilian authorities, c ... Full text Cite

Native and National in Brazil: Indigeneity after Independence

Journal Article LATIN AMERICAN INDIAN LITERATURES JOURNAL · 2012 Cite

Review of Stephanie Springgay and Debra Freedman (eds), Curriculum and the Cultural Body

Journal Article Teachers College Record · December 2007 Cite

Hard Play: Capoeira and the Politics of Inequality in Rio de Janeiro" (Dissertation, Depart of Anthropology and Education, Columbia University)

Thesis Dissertation · 2007 Cite

Katya Wesolowski

Selected Publications

Capoeira Connections A Memoir in Motion

Imagining Brazil in Africa: Capoeira's Transatlantic Roots and Routes

Ethnography In-Sight: Diasporic Imaginings

Body Games: Capoeira and Ancestry

Jogo de Corpo: Capoeira e Ancestralidade / Body Games: Capoeira and Ancestry, 2013. A film by Richard Pakleppa, Matthias Röhrig Assunção and Mestre Cobra Mansa. 87 min. Color. Distributed by Manganga Produções.

From “moral disease” to “national sport”: Race, nation, and capoeira In Brazil

Professionalizing capoeira: The politics of play in twenty-first-century Brazil

Native and National in Brazil: Indigeneity after Independence

Review of Stephanie Springgay and Debra Freedman (eds), Curriculum and the Cultural Body

Hard Play: Capoeira and the Politics of Inequality in Rio de Janeiro" (Dissertation, Depart of Anthropology and Education, Columbia University)

"A Diasporic Practice Goes Back to Africa"

Review of Daryle Williams, Culture Wars In Brazil: The First Vargas Regime, 1930-1945

Review of Robert M. Levine, The History of Brazil

HARD PLAY: CAPOEIRA AND THE POLITICS OF INEQUALITY IN RIO DE JANEIRO