Abstract

SERNA LUNA, Erick. Mandinga é fundamento. Capoeira’s intercultural and interreligious sociogenesis. Inter disciplina [online]. 2018, vol.6, n.16, pp.207-225.  Epub Feb 24, 2021. ISSN 2448-5705.  https://doi.org/10.22201/ceiich.24485705e.2018.16.65641.

This essay is a first approach toward a decolonial reflection about the afrobrazilian art of Capoeira. I propose to recover mandinga, a corporal and moral behavior characteristic of Capoeira’s play (jogo), to show that Capoeira is the result of a transcultural process rooted in the sociogenesis of the experience of the African diaspora which was enslaved and transported to Brasil. This diaspora, which is constituted by populations of various kingdoms and was forced to settle in Brazilian territory, created diverse knowledges through intercultural and interreligious processes to resist and preserve their original forms of knowledge -an example of which is the Capoeira. In this sense, mandinga, or the corporal and moral representation of “trick art”, is a foundation which helps us to understand forms of knowledge and techniques which enslaved people had do create to resist and survive against the forced uprooting provoked by the slave trade. Despite continuous and constant transcultural processes which characterize Capoeira, this body-politics continues to be represented in each and every roda and play (jogo), thus remembering -in every movement- the epistemological foundation of an embodied politics which shows the experience of blackness (negritud) in Brazil.

Keywords : Capoeira; sociogenesis; interculturality; interreligiosity.

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