ABSTRACT
This article aimed to analyze how the chronicles of Paulo Barreto, better known as João do Rio, manifested sport and processes related to body education. The sources selected were the writer’s chronicles published until 1921, the year of his death, and the primary or secondary subject of which was sport. The word sport was broadly present in the author’s work, sometimes reflecting positive points and sometimes emphasizing negative aspects, but always as a conventional feature of different ways of educating the body. In conclusion, the writer used sport to represent the facets that existed within Rio de Janeiro society, and these representations evidence ways of life that had educational elements related to the body.
Keywords:
Sport; Body Education; Rio de Janeiro; João do Rio