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Revista de Educação PopularPopular culture presents countless cultural manifestations that present characteristics peculiar to the places where they take place. In this aspect, capoeira presents itself as one of these manifestations. The objective of this study is to verify the use of a methodological proposal for teaching capoeira to elderly people in the organization of class ...
Bruna Valéria Rodrigues de Souza +2 more
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Musculoskeletal Injuries in Capoeira Athletes: An Epidemiological Study. [PDF]
Healthcare (Basel), 2023 Capoeira involves fighting movements, turns, acrobatic jumps, and repeated movements, which can lead to injury. This study determined the incidence of injuries in capoeira athletes and analyzed the associated factors.
Minghelli B.
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Capoeira: hypothesis on health rehabilitation and quality-of-life maintenance. [PDF]
Rev Assoc Med Bras (1992), 2022 SUMMARY OBJECTIVE: The aim of this work was to present hypotheses supporting capoeira as an activity aimed at health rehabilitation and maintenance of quality of life.
Moreira SR, Ii ACO, Armstrong A.
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Cultural background and diversity: N'golo and Capoeira in play. [PDF]
Front PsycholIntroduction Capoeira is an Afro-Brazilian polysemic cultural manifestation, commonly known as fight-game formerly practiced only in streets and restricted environments and currently in training centers, gyms, and mainly in schools. The main question is:
de Paula Machado Pasqua L, de Toledo E.
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Multifaceted Assessment of Amazonian Tree Diversity Reveals Pervasive Impacts of Human Modification. [PDF]
Glob Chang BiolAmazonian forests impacted by humans have a reduced and different group of tree species than those forests that have never been impacted. The trees present in forests impacted by humans also have different evolutionary histories and functional characteristics.
Berenguer E +13 more
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Journal of Bone and Mineral Research, Volume 38, Issue 11, Page 1612-1634, November 2023., 2023 ABSTRACT Moderate‐ to high‐impact exercise improves bone mineral density (BMD) across the lifespan, but its effects on bone structure, which predicts fracture independent of areal BMD, are unclear. This systematic review and meta‐analysis investigated effects of impact exercise on volumetric BMD (vBMD) and bone structure. Four databases (PubMed, Embase,
Carrie‐Anne Ng +5 more
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Engolo and Capoeira. From Ethnic to Diasporic Combat Games in the Southern Atlantic
Martial Arts Studies, 2023 This article provides a re-examination of the main Afrocentric narrative of capoeira origins, the engolo or ‘Zebra Dance’, in light of historical primary sources and new ethnographic evidence gathered during fieldwork in south-west Angola.
Matthias Röhrig Assunção
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Children &Society, Volume 37, Issue 1, Page 183-198, January 2023., 2023 Abstract This paper examines the reflections of a cohort of Australian children who lived through the 2020–21 COVID‐19 pandemic and experienced being in ‘lockdown’; a state of largely being confined to the home for long periods daily. We report how children reflect on their experiences and illustrate how reflections draw on similar topics focused on ...
Barbara F. Kelly +1 more
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Activating dark earths: somatosoils and the carbonic loops of Amazonian ecologies
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 28, Issue 3, Page 854-874, September 2022., 2022 Abstract Inspired by the fertility and climate change‐mitigation properties of the so‐called Amazonian Dark Earths (ADEs), soil science has devised a technoscientific replica, a soil amendment known as biochar, intended to improve agricultural sustainability and carbon storage in the biosphere. Drawing on fieldwork with Afroindigenous horticulturalists,
Aníbal G. Arregui
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Danced movement in human geographic research: A methodological discussion
Geography Compass, Volume 16, Issue 8, August 2022., 2022 Abstract As central as bodily movement might be to geographic research, its potential as methodology is only beginning to be explored within the discipline. This paper contributes to this emerging scholarship by reviewing recent work from human geography and allied disciplines which acknowledges the importance of embodied knowledges and engages ...
Gabriel Baker +2 more
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