ABSTRACT
Knowledge production does not involve simply imparting descriptive content, but lessons on how to survive in an unequal and hostile world, and this chapter focuses on the tactics and tricks represented through the music, movement and ritual of capoeira. Capoeira cultivates layers of trickery and deceit as forms of agency available to marginalised or controlled groups: constrained by the stronger, capoeira players make use of tactics, counter-rationality and magic to escape and counter-attack. These creative and expressive forms exist alongside constant reference to bemusement about the crooked nature of the world and the injustice of its workings.
