O espírito japonês : esboço para uma arqueologia etnográfica do Ki 守 破 離 – Shuhari – Os três momentos do aprendizado da maestria
Abstract
In my Master's research, I evaluated the Japanese Kendō practice as a Japaneseness
device, i.e., something that sought to "make Japanese". In this manufacturing process,
Kendō focused on three connected planes: the 'Spirit' [Ki], the Sword and the Body.
While development of the foregoing, this doctoral thesis sought to analyze data from
life stories of Kendō practitioners and Documents about the notion of Ki – Life Force,
Vital Energy – through an extensive ethnographic research in Brazil and Japan. The
notion of Ki introduced itself as an important way to understanding the Japanese
Culture itself, in a close relationship with an idiosyncratic notion of Love - Ai. The
result was a theoretical and analytical potentiality to understand the Japanese Kinship
and Japanese-and-Non-Japanese’s Family Studies, including cultural recognition
processes whose assessment was made by anthropological and comparative
perspectives