This paper proposes to question the notions of childhood, culture and movement in the Physical Education from the contributions of Anthropology of the Child, which demonstrates in the studies in indigenous societies how much identity and child subjectivities are constructed through processes that accomplish through the body. In this discussion, I approach the concepts of childhood in western society, assuming that the child should not be considered as natural or universal category, determined by biological aspects, and that his/her determinations are variables, historically, culturally and socially.
Childhood; body; movement; anthropology of the childhood