PSYCHOLOGICAL BARRIERS BETWEEN VIOLENCE, FIGHT AND GAME: PHENOMENOLOGICAL TRANSITIONS IN THE PRACTICE OF CAPOEIRA
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https://doi.org/10.22456/1982-8918.46298Keywords:
Capoeira. Fights. Games.Abstract
The aim of this research is to understand experiences of Capoeira practitioners in the psychological transit between game, fight and quarrels, based on their own accounts. The methodological framework used was the phenomenological archeology of cultures. Three categories essentially describe how game, fight and quarrels really happen in Capoeira: the joy of playing; the game of complicity, and the denial of game. Moreover, the essential elements of transitions appear in two groups: game of prudences and tough game – emotionally guided by the dynamics between slowdown and combative intensification. Combative intensification is found to result either in violence or in the development of the fighting spirit, providing existential conditions for capoeira practitioners’ self-control.
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