Abstract

TOLEDO, Luiz Henrique de  and  COSTA, Carlos Eduardo. Playing, fighting, rooting for: ethnographic gazes on football and Amerindian rituals. Etnográfica [online]. 2023, vol.27, n.1, pp.27-50.  Epub Apr 28, 2023. ISSN 0873-6561.  https://doi.org/10.4000/etnografica.12856.

The article is a synthesis effort to present a sub-area of sports studies in social sciences in Brazil, called Anthropology of Sportives Practices. It is an expression that articulates the uses of some notions that define the vast field of playful experiences with the contextual production of empirical data. Broad spectrum sociological models that operate notions such as games and sports are put to the test of experiments and extensions of ethnographic models. In this case, the objective is to achieve more discontinuous landscapes in which the meanings of what we define by “to play” and “to watch” - sensitives faculties that orders expressive corporealities - assume a more universal symbolic nexus than properly historical phenomena, such as games, hobbies and sports. The examination of the dialectic between watch and play allows different sportive practices, such as football and a specific Xingu wrestling, analyzed from the point of view of the category “cheers” (fans), to maintain their comparative properties in the difference.

Keywords : Anthropology of sportive practices; corporealities; ethnographical models.

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