although modern medicine is just now starting to take notice, locals of all races and classes have for years cured maladies with tinctures and teas, potions, and preparations passed down from generation to generation.

even children's games here are passed down from the old to the young, and thus tell of the great mixture of the city. everyone can remember building a fighting kite by hand, playing telephone, or stomping around the courtyard on a cavalho de pau.

games like capitão de campo retell in a way - and at a child's level of understanding - the struggles that have made cariocas who they are.