capoeira: References & Edit History

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Article History

Type Description Contributor Date
Invalidated site: The Guardian - All you need to know about: capoeira. Oct 27, 2026
Media added. Aug 10, 2026
Add new Web site: NPR - Getting Fit, and Taking Hits, with Capoeira. Dec 24, 2025
Add new Web site: Frontiers - Frontiers in Psychology - The Blows and Capoeira Movements From the Caricatures of Calixto Cordeiro. Sep 18, 2025
Add new Web site: ABC listen - Passport: discovering Brazilian capoeira. Mar 13, 2025
Add new Web site: Academia - Pathophysiology of Paresthesia. Nov 06, 2024
Add new Web site: The Guardian - All you need to know about: capoeira. Aug 30, 2024
Add new Web site: Academia - Capoeira: From Slave Combat Game to Global Martial Art. Oct 27, 2023
Add new Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - Capoeira: hypothesis on health rehabilitation and quality-of-life maintenance. Sep 12, 2023
Add new Web site: BBC News - Rediscovering the African roots of Brazil's martial art capoeira. May 26, 2023
Add new Web site: Contemporary Capoeira - The Origins of Capoeira? Feb 01, 2023
Add new Web site: Academia - Capoeira: From Slave Combat Game to Global Martial Art (PDF). Oct 15, 2022
Add new Web site: Academia - Capoeira: From Slave Combat Game to Global Martial Art (PDF). Oct 15, 2022
Replaced photograph. Oct 27, 2021
Added cross-references. Oct 01, 2020
Added video. Mar 20, 2015
Added photograph. Oct 25, 2010
Added image of berimbau players, accompanied by a pandeiro. Sep 16, 2010
Changed description of reco-reco from "scraped gourd" to "scraped bamboo tube." Oct 06, 2009
Replaced "malandragem" with "malicia" as a closer approximation of the art of deception. Sep 01, 2009
Removed characterization of the art form as a dance and deleted references to its practitioners as dancers. Apr 09, 2009
Added description of musical component and expanded details of present practice. Apr 09, 2009
Added new Web site: Capoeirista. Jul 31, 2006
Added new Web site: Capoeira 4 All. Jul 31, 2006
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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