"Vida Universitária": política, esportes e festas. Uma análise antropológica da sociabilidade estudantil contemporânea
Abstract
Initially, the objective of this research was to carry out an ethnography of the “tournaments
universities”, events that bring together students from different institutions of higher education
around parties and sports competitions.
The expansion of the empirical scope, however, came in the sense of showing that the tournaments, for
in addition to the sporting enjoyment and sociability they instill, they are deeply intertwined with a
university ethos with developments in various spheres, from the domestic one, and the analysis of the
republics attests to this fact, even the public universe of clashes typical of student politics.
The research intends to renew, in a certain sense, the works on the manifestations
students insofar as they link them to a broader university symbolic system,
revealing a dynamic of its own where the ethos of the game, the party and the sport are not outside the
political decision-making. It is, in fact, a system that does not end in the object
“university sport” itself. In the analysis of “republics”, for example, the
notion of house proposed by Lévi-Strauss for kinship studies proved to be quite
fruitful, since the affinity regime defined in these student houses, as revealed by
the native categories operationalized there, such as friendship, arrival, “brother”, intertwine
and dialogue with regimes of affective, ideological affinity.
Without an ethnography of these practices that permeate this intense sociability, visible in the
games and tournaments, but which is also important in the everyday sphere, in the
domestic, returning to the public sphere from the student claims movements, it is not
would understand the more universal training process of these young university students in Brazil.
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