ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Psychol.
Sec. Sport Psychology
Volume 16 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1545060
This article is part of the Research TopicPromoting Inclusion and Representation: The Role of Cultural Diversity in SportsView all 18 articles
Cultural backgrounds and diversity: N'golo and Capoeira in play
Provisionally accepted
- 1Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- 2State University of Campinas, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil
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Capoeira is an Afro-Brazilian polysemic cultural manifestation, commonly known as fight-game formerly practiced only in streets and restricted environments and currently in training centers, gyms, and mainly in schools. The main question is: how this practice that was marginalized, prohibited by the Brazilian Penal Code in the past, can today promote an improvement in interpersonal relationships and cultural diversity among people? This is a documentary research characterized by a historical approach, based on capoeira-body to understand the body narrative. Sources: analysis of N'golo drawings by the artist Neves e Sousa in Galeria Verney (Portugal). Categories established a priori:: 1. characterization of body practice, 2. musicality and 3. body elements. In short, we argue that understanding of the African roots in Capoeira is an instrumental for promoting inclusion and representation, highlighting Cultural Diversity in Physical Education as well in people daily life, in different practical contexts of teaching, all over the world.Opening the roda (Introduction)Opening the roda 1 (Capoeira circle) means start the game. This paper will be opened primarily realizing an approach between Capoeira fundamentals (historical, bodily knowledge) and Cultural Diversity promotion in Sports in order to understand its ability to unite individuals from various cultural backgrounds, and how it has the potential to reduce cultural disparities. As can be seen in global newspapers and magazines throughout the time, this manifestation is also present in areas of social vulnerability and refugee camps, with the aim of reducing differences and promoting harmony between people, as exemplified in the reports "Capoeira brings fun and peace to refugees in the Democratic
Keywords: capoeira1, n'golo2, cultural diversity3, ancestry4, African diaspora5
Received: 13 Dec 2024; Accepted: 16 Apr 2025.
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* Correspondence: Lívia De Paula Machado Pasqua, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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