Iê viva meu deus – capoeira: da criminalização ao reconhecimento internacional

Abstract

Capoeira is part of Brazilian culture and is already spread across five continents and in more than 150 countries. Despite all the resistance and criminalization that capoeira has suffered over the years, finally in 2014, the capoeira circles were registered by IPHAN and together with UNESCO as an immaterial historical patrimony of humanity. Along with this came the consumer market that made what was a cultural resistance in another commodity to sell to tourists, what is denominated mercantilization of the Afro Brazilian culture, and it still affects the question of Human Rights with respect to the cultural rights. In research defined culture in a critical classic theory like Hall, Mwewa and Rubim, that brought us to the idea of how a culture, according to someone’s action, can get repercussion in something bigger, in a society. Through data analysis of government documents that support the Capoeira register as a cultural imaterial patrimony. One of the limitations of work is about the lack of studies about Capoeira and the ones existentes are full of blanks, without some questions. So in general, though, the research showed a bigger wish of capoeirista to pressure the State some public politics to become this culture na educational instrument e a representation of Brazil abroad, and that was legitimed across the consagration of this cultural expression as a historical cultural imaterial patrimony but also brought consequences as appropriation of afro-brazilian culture for Market and turistic Marke and it retires the real meaning of culture resistance.