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Showing papers by "Marco Paulo Stigger published in 2015"


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TL;DR: In this article, the authors conducted an ethnographic work with a group of women to understand how their team was sustained and remained committed to the Women's Volleyball Master League in Porto Alegre, RS.
Abstract: This paper provides elements for discussions on leisure (both as locus and object) resulting from an ethnographic work conducted with a group of women. It aimed at understanding how their team was sustained and remained committed to the Women’s Volleyball Master League in Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil. Firstly, we discuss the notion of time and the obligation-based logic that opposes leisure to other dimensions of daily life. Afterwards, we debate “attitudes” that take on adjectives related to seriousness. We found that daily negotiations blurred boundaries between dimensions and also placed that leisure as space/time “taken seriously”.

4 citations


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TL;DR: In this paper, a study was conducted to understand the ways in which children from kindergarten appropriated the games proposed by physical education teacher and how they built ways to play, and found that the proposed jokes in class were reinvented by the children with the intention of making them more attractive.
Abstract: The aim of this study was to understand the ways in which children from kindergarten appropriated the games proposed by Physical Education teacher and how they built ways to play. Systematic observations were made in physical education classes at a daycare center in Porto Alegre and produced 23 field journals. It could be observed that the proposed jokes in class were reinvented by the children with the intention of making them more attractive. A joke that was attractive in that children gained prominence, were challenged and successfully obtained. Understanding the motivations, forms of appropriations and the meanings children give to the games, you can decrease the symbolic distance between adult (teacher) and child (student).

3 citations


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TL;DR: In this paper, a multisite ethnographic research developed in a large circuit of "outskirts football" in the city of Porto Alegre, Brazil, is presented.
Abstract: This work is part of the discussions on the diversity of sports meanings in leisure situations in city contexts. It is the result of a multisite ethnographic research developed in a large circuit of ‘outskirts football’ in the city of Porto Alegre, Brazil, which is an important leisure setting. Its aim was to understand the dynamics of formation of the concepts of violence in leisure by focusing the analysis on two ‘empirical characters’: the ‘kid’ and the ‘old hand in outskirts football’. The enterprise is carried out within a debate with Eliasian theory on violence and the pursuit of pleasurable excitement in mimetic sporting practices. Finally, we point out two aspects as contributions to leisure studies: the existence of unpleasant types of violence that do not represent ruptures, but which ‘are part’ of that mimetic context, pointed out as disproportionalities; the experience of pleasant tension-excitement not only at an ideal level, but also in the emotional slidings between different tension balances.

2 citations


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04 Dec 2015
TL;DR: In this paper, an ethnographic study about the practice of adapted sports for Seniors, Guided by Competition, was conducted in the context of two groups of Câmbio participants in the city of Porto Alegre.
Abstract: Para estimular a adesao por parte de idosos a pratica esportiva foi desenvolvida a modalidade câmbio, uma adaptacao do voleibol a qual tem motivado prefeituras, poder publico e grupos de idosos a promover amistosos e torneios competitivos. O objetivo desse trabalho foi conhecer a forma como idosos vivenciam essa pratica esportiva, compreendendo como ela se insere na vida dos seus praticantes. Para tal, foi realizado um estudo etnografico em dois grupos praticantes de câmbio na cidade de Porto Alegre/RS. Verificamos que, nos universos investigados, o câmbio era vivenciado de diversas formas, sendo que em algumas situacoes o divertimento e a brincadeira eram os fios condutores da pratica, e em outros momentos a seriedade e a busca por rendimento nos movimentos tecnicos eram a prioridade. Câmbio: An Ethnographic Study About the Practice of Adapted Sports for Seniors, Guided by Competition To encourage adherence by seniors to sports was created Câmbio, an adaptation of volleyball which has motivated local governments, public authorities and elderly groups to promote friendly and competitive tournaments. The aim of this study was to know how the elderly experience in this sport practice, to understand how it fits into the lives of its participants. For this study, we conducted an ethnographic study in the context of two groups of Câmbio participants in the city of Porto Alegre. We found that in this universe investigated, the Câmbio was experienced in different ways, in some cases in a more playful way, geared for fun, and in other cases, based on a more serious connotation, guided by the results.

1 citations


01 Jan 2015
TL;DR: In this paper, the trajectory of the Sociocultural Study Group in Physical Education (GESEF) is described and analyzed, based on its ethnographic investigations, with a view to intervention in the fields of sport and leisure.
Abstract: This work, seeking to dialogue with production related to sport and leisure, describes and analyzes the trajectory of Sociocultural Study Group in Physical Education (GESEF), specially based on its ethnographic investigations. It presents portraits of unplanned investigative paths developed at their interface with anthropology. Such portraits of studies show points of reflections and contributions at different fronts: understanding sport practices as culture shared in groups, beyond absences and favoring appropriation in urban leisure contexts made up of ordinary people; understanding fun practices, including games and sports, as spaces for disputes and negotiations connected to everyday life and therefore as significant educational universes immersed in power relations; understanding the polyphony of interests that pervade sports practices, especially those that coexist “in leisure”, although they might appear antagonistic or ambiguous at first glance, hampering a priori difficult classifications and understandings; and understanding sport and recreational experiences in the lives of social actors in action, as social issues connected to politics, education, violence, work. Finally, the text emphasizes that it is not proposing to close discussions, but to bring elements that can contribute in understanding, especially with a view to intervention in the fields of sport and leisure.

1 citations