Power in Practice: The Pragmatic Anthropology of Afro-Brazilian CapoeiraConsidering the concept of power in capoeira, an Afro Brazilian ritual art form, Varela describes ethnographically the importance that capoeira leaders (mestres) have in the social configuration of a style called Angola in Bahia, Brazil. He analyzes how individual power is essential for an understanding of the modern history of capoeira, and for the themes of embodiment, play, cosmology, and ritual action. The book also emphasizes the great