02056cgm a2200385 i 4500 2550701154 TxAuBib 20240906120000.0 r 220531|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 13168852 Kanopy CaSfKAN eng rda CaSfKAN TxAuBib rda The Body Won’t Close [Kanopy]. Royal Anthropological Institute, 2020. [San Francisco, California, USA : Kanopy Streaming, 2022. 1 online resource (streaming video file) (75 minutes) : digital, .flv file, sound. tdi rdacontent c rdamedia cr rdacarrier Title from title frames. Film. In Process Record. Originally produced by Royal Anthropological Institute in 2020. 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. Mode of access: World Wide Web. Anthropology. Latin America. Foreign study. Social sciences. Documentary films. van de Port, Mattijs, film director. Royal Anthropological Institute (Firm). Kanopy (Firm). https://USERNAME.kanopy.com/node/12168854 https://www.kanopy.com/node/12168854/external-image