In Search of Legitimacy: How Outsiders Become Part of the Afro-Brazilian Capoeira Tradition (Dance and Performance Studies, 7)Every year, countless young adults from affluent, Western nations travel to Brazil to train in capoeira, the dance martial art form that is one of the most visible strands of the Afro Brazilian cultural tradition. In Search of Legitimacy explores why first world men and women leave behind their jobs, families, and friends to pursue a strenuous training regimen in a historically disparaged and marginalized practice. Using the concept of apprenticeship