TY  - ADVS
AU  - van de Port,Mattijs
ED  - Royal Anthropological Institute (Firm),
ED  - Kanopy (Firm),
TI  - The Body Won’t Close
PY  - 2020///
PB  - Royal Anthropological Institute
KW  - Anthropology
KW  - Latin America
KW  - Documentary films
KW  - Foreign study
KW  - Social sciences
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Title from title frames; Film; In Process Record; Originally produced by Royal Anthropological Institute in 2020
N2  - Our bodies are semi-permeable. All over the world, stories are being told about heroes who magically “close” their bodies, so as to become invincible. This film follows one such story, as it is told in Santo Amaro, Bahia (Brazil). Besouro Mangangà was a capoeira player, a black hero, who had closed his body. No bullets, no knives or daggers could pierce his skin. Bahian men explain how “closing the body” makes sense in their precarious and violent world, and why, in the end, this closure can never be accomplished. Soon the filmmaker realizes that his film is not only about the people in Bahia. He too is struggling with the porosity of his body, endlessly trying to strike a balance between shutting the world out and letting the world in
UR  - https://tus.kanopy.com/node/12168854
UR  - https://www.kanopy.com/node/12168854/external-image
ER  -