Categorisations and transformations of rooting for

Comparative analysis concerning the sportiveness of watching

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ID2489346
AuthorsLuiz Henrique De Toledo (0000-0002-5354-5923, Universidade Federal de São Carlos, corresponding author), C E Costa (0000-0003-1783-0732)
Year2024
Volume21
Publication date2024-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueVibrant Virtual Brazilian Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1809-4341 • E-ISSN: 1809-4341
PublisherFapUNIFESP (SciELO) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1590/1809-43412024v21d504
OpenAlexW4403606937
SCIELO_PIDS1809-43412024000100504
LanguageEN
References cited15

Our proposal is to conduct an ethnographic, conceptual, comparative debate concerning the sportiveness of watching, beginning with sociological and emic categories that describe the performance of supporters' clubs in a specific sport, professional football. We will focus on the 'games' between categories that define the spheres of 'rooting for' (a team) in a Brazilian urban context and then contrast these with performances of 'rooting for' (a fighter) in another sports landscape, an Amerindian form of ritual combat that takes place during the interethnic rituals of egitsü (Quarup) in Upper Xingu, Brazil. The dialectical relationship between playing and rooting for, mediated by watching, constitutes what we define as a 'model of relationships', an analytical and ethnographic construct used to problematise analyses that assume rooting for as a subsidiary and/or epiphenomenal condition of playing

Sociology · Physical Education and Sports Studies · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts · Sports, Gender, and Society

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