O culto ao corpo em academia de ginástica: um estudo etnográfico na Cidade do Rio de Janeiro

• Autor(a) principal: Maroun, Kalyla
• Data de Publicação: 2008
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UERJ
• Texto Completo: http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/handle/1/15282
• topic: Body; Ambience; Gymnastic academy; Corpo; Ambiência; Corpo e Mente; Academia de ginástica; Imagem Corporal; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::PSICOLOGIA::PSICOLOGIA SOCIAL

The main goal of the present study was to describe, based on the ambience of the gymnastic academies, the phenomenon of body cult in the contemporaneous society. The ambience, considered as a category in the social imaginary field, recognize the space as a place that is both, product and producer of symbolic relationship and senses. After reviewing the literature concerning the purpose here, an ethnographic study was accomplished throughout both the participant observation and the discourse analysis (French school) in a full-size gymnastic academy localized in the south zone of Rio de Janeiro city. The results obtained in the field research highlighted for three categories of ambience analysis: 1) the mirror house: the motivation of images, objects and shapes; 2) the human motivation: the professional of physical education; and 3) the tribe symbol: the body. It is reasonable to consider the ambience as a significant contributor for emerging the body cult developed in academies and, proliferating in other spheres of social life, it apparently excludes those who are not concerned to the phenomenon under discussion. Furthermore, it is possible to establish an analogy for describing the ambience by pondering: from the Dionysian hedonism to the Apollonian discipline, the image of Narcissus prevails. Finally, mapping the ambience of gymnastic academy is an interesting source for reflecting some of the contemporary social relations, which if compared to other historic periods, were either, maintained, modified or would be into a process of transition. The phenomenon of body cult, as well as the approach by the way dealings is ascertained by searching for esthetics represent the transitory moment which the complexes societies are submitted.