#caillois-categories

¶ Capoeira is a game, a fight, a dance and a memory: which of Caillois’s boxes does it go in?

In capoeira Angola we don't say we fight. We say we play: jogar capoeira. Two people enter the roda, the circle of players and musicians, and the berimbau sets the pace. Somebody once told me Huizinga thought play was older than culture,…