CAPOEIRA, SPACE AND CITIZENSHIP: AN EFFORT OF ANALYSIS BASED ON THE NARRATIVES OF CAPOEIRISTA MASTERS

Abstract

The finality of this paper is to investigate the relation between capoeira and citizenship amplification, trough of reports from Teachers and Mestres. Was realized a qualitative research as methodological practice. Therefore, was used a semi structured interview, where the interviewer prepares a script and leading of bruising form to understanding all relevant aspects that involve the daily capoeira in Victoria City. The base of the investigation starting from Mestres reports of each group studied. We understand there are many particulars in each groups of capoeira, its history, its trajectory, such as the history of the personage of the group configured in Mestres's impersonate. There is a common characteristic in all investigated groups, everyone use public places, in other words, collective places to realize their activities. The Capoeira practiced in Victoria, comes up as a cultural alternative manifestation, that brings meaning and take up public places. Throughout of the research, was observed that the principal component are values transmitted generation to generation, through oral form Mestres's lives experience.