Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: LOUISE CAROLINE GOMES BRANCO

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STUDENT : LOUISE CAROLINE GOMES BRANCO
DATE: 26/02/2026
TIME: 08:00
LOCAL: Google Meet
TITLE:

Between Gingas and Women: Resistance and Performances in the Trajectories of Angolan Women in Natal/RN and Olinda/PE

KEY WORDS:

Women, Capoeira Angola, Resistances, Anthropology, Cultural performance.

PAGES: 235
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: Antropologia
SUMMARY:

This research seeks to discuss how resistance processes occur around discussions on gender, race-ethnicity, and class, which have grown in recent decades within Capoeira Angola, based on women's agency. It addresses the formation of a network of women capoeiristas in the Northeast who seek to strengthen women's autonomy in Capoeira Angola and draw from the experience and collective construction of affections and controversies inherent in the practice. We think of gender, ethnic-racial condition, class, and sexualities not just as subjectivities, but as constructions that are daily, practiced, and discussed by cultural agents. Thru observation and experience with the Dona Cora Study Group in Natal/RN and the Luz Di Angola group in Olinda/PE, as well as women leaders in Lisbon, in the Dendê de Maré and Irmãos Guerreiros groups, we present ethnographic results based on field diary records and recordings of some training sessions and events of both groups. Regarding the groups in Lisbon, we rely on the records shared by the groups on Instagram and my experience in the city during my doctoral internship. As a result, new ways of conducting Capoeira Angola spaces have emerged, which, even tho tied to hierarchy and tradition, demonstrate greater concern for building safe spaces for women and people with dissident genders, as well as promoting esthetics as a foundation, especially in Natal. The narratives of Angolan women reveal that Capoeira is not just a cultural space, but a formative, political, and esthetic space, fundamental for the elaboration of identities and (re)existences. The Capoeira Angola, discourses and practices are constructed around concepts dear to anthropology, such as ancestry, esthetics, and performance, which are activated in the game and in the experiences of Angolan women.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Presidente - 1360691 - RITA DE CASSIA MARIA NEVES
Interna - 1868152 - GESLLINE GIOVANA BRAGA
Interno - 349700 - LUIZ CARVALHO DE ASSUNCAO
Externo à Instituição - JOÃO AIRES DE FREITAS LEAL - NOVA