In contemporary capoeira groups, newcomers are symbolically ‘baptised’ into the community at a public ceremony called their Batizado (literally baptism) held during a festival. Novices play a game with a guest expert, get their first belt and thereafter they are members of their teacher’s group. Drawing on a long term, two-handed ethnography of diasporic capoeira contemporanea in the UK, including observation of 53 such festivals, their ceremonial features are analysed. At all the stages of the ‘welcome’, before, during and after the batizado, the topic of gender in capoeira contemporanea is explored. In the last 40 years, women have become enthusiastic participants and are core members of the groups we have studied. The article compares the sociological (symbolic interactionist) and anthropological approaches to ceremonies and rituals such as the capoeira batizado, drawing on Glaser, Strauss and Katz compared to van Gennep, Turner and MacAloon.

在当代卡波耶拉团体中，新来者在节日期间举行的名为Batizado（字面意思是洗礼）的公共仪式上象征性地“受洗”进入社区。新手与客座专家玩游戏，获得第一条腰带，然后成为老师组的成员。借鉴英国散居在外的当代卡波耶拉的长期、双手民族志，包括对 53 个此类节日的观察，分析了它们的仪式特征。在“欢迎”的所有阶段，在batizado之前、之中和之后，当代卡波耶拉的性别话题被探索。在过去的 40 年中，女性已经成为热情的参与者，并且是我们研究过的群体的核心成员。这篇文章比较了社会学（符号互动论者）和人类学方法来处理仪式和仪式，例如卡波耶拉batizado，借鉴 Glaser、Strauss 和 Katz 与 van Gennep、Turner 和 MacAloon 的比较。