A roda do mundo

Readers will find in A roda do mundo : a capoeira angola em tempos de globalização the balanced combination of fine ethnographic information about Capoeira Angola with instigating anthropological insights. Capoeiristas who are interested in the book can undoubtedly learn something new about the universe in which they participate. Those who are eventually unfamiliar with anthropology will be attracted, thanks to Celso de Brito's inviting and "hospitable" writing, for a fascinating discipline. That is, by a science, anthropology, whose expertise consists in incorporating - with the sensitivity of the alchemist - the concrete experience of the actors and - with the objectivity of the chemist - the combinatorial elements observed by the analyst.