A reflexividade nos discursos identitários da capoeira
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2008-07-07
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Almeida, Juliana Azevedo de
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Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo
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The research identifies how the “capoeira” identitary narratives are structured and
legitimated, having as basis the reflexive modernity. The reflexive process takes place
through the information between the different fields of knowledge production about a
determined social practice that is always under reformulation (GIDDENS, 2002). This
way, the study verifies how the “capoeira” discourse interpretation produced by
practitioners and academics in the speeches of the daily life and texts is made. First of
all, it maps and analyses the discourses about the “capoeira” linked to the magazine
“Revista Brasileira de Ciências do Esporte” (RBCE), concluding that the same brings,
between the lines, the conservator and nationalist tone that intends to rescue/preserve
ethno cultural “capoeira” trace. After, it identifies and interprets the elements and ways
of identitary affirmation produced in a “capoeira” group, tracing a parallel with the
academic discourses analyzed. The work has as methodological tool the ethnography
and uses the participant observation and semi structured interviews as instruments for
data collection. It proves the existence of reflexivity among the discourses of the fields
mentioned; however, it calls attention for the articulation with other systems of
information production and for the factors of the reflexive process that filters the
knowledge and promotes the specificities of each “capoeira” group and each society.
Besides, it points the relations between the representations of the practical environment
and the reality of the Brazilian society, highlighting that the practitioners discourse is
more innovator than the academic one. Although, in essence, both discourses are
similar, because they value cultural elements (re)affirming the Brazilian way and
reproduce values of a country marked by traditionalism. Such tendency of discourses,
besides searching for standing out the “value” of “capoeira” in the markets, it also
represents a way to make stronger the links with the nation in the midst of risks and
uncertainness of the modernity. It concludes that, in “capoeira”, the reflexivity is
manifested in an incomplete way, what represents the actual reality of a country that is
in process of modernization and, consequently, of reappearing of the national
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Identity , Reflexivity , Nation , Reflexividade , Nação