Football on the field, in the field of ethnology: football association and amerindian sportiveness

ABSTRACT

This essay intends to discuss the dissemination of football in indigenous communities, echoing its recognized universalizing potential. Despite incipient theoretical interpretations from an ethnological point of view, its practice is widely described in ethnographies from different regions. The proposal is the resumption of works that drove on the theme demonstrating their relations with traditional institutions and native modalities. The development of football promotes transformations through the pacification of interethnic relations; sportification of bodily disputes; aesthetic resignification;

onomastic annexation. In short, it is incorporated from the set of relationships proper to each context. The connection between these seminal works and the ethnographic material elaborated in researches carried out with the Kalapalo of the Upper Xingu aims to demonstrate the possibilities of developing dialogues between ethnology and anthropology of sportive practices.

KEYWORDS:
Football; transformations; amerindian sportiness; interethnic relations