Anthropology and football

Abstract (English)

By proposing a hermeneutic reading of the polysemy of humanity, that makes the game possible, we seek to enrich the collective academic conversation around football and open up new horizons to understand this reality.
The significant operator is the rule that prescribes feet and proscribes hands to drive the ball in play.
First, because football is addressed to manual and bipedal animals.
Second because touch, names the distinct and primordial function of such organs in how individuals relate to the world and to one another.

Thus, the game in football rise from a disruptive position of the current relation of the body to the world. It let to understand the anthropological meaning of the intention to usurp the touch of the hands (the tool of the possible according to the poet Paul Valery) to drive the volatile piece of a round ball (Read a sphere which is a symbol of our locus in the world and which carries in itself both strength and fragility (Slotterdik).

OBJECTIVES
Expand the game of meanings that drive individuals and societies to engage in playing and watching football.
Open new horizons for interpreting this reality reading the polysemy of the human that makes the game possible.
Placing this interpellation within the perspective of the corporal gendering imaginary by a critical reflection

RELEVANCE
The inquiry, guided by key questions, permits us to better understand ourselves.
- What aspects of a fundamental anthropology animate humans to want to go beyond their limits?
- How have humans dealt with their own self-strain and what kind of pleasure in witnessing the live resolution of such aporia?

From this perspective, the game offers a space for generating new senses that reinforces the consolidation of deep anthropology (Morin) of our condition as being born prematurely.