Abstract

ALABARCES, Pablo  and  GARRIGA ZUCAL, José. El "Aguante": A Popular And Corporal Identity. Intersecciones antropol. [online]. 2008, n.9, pp.275-289. ISSN 1850-373X.

In this paper, the uses and representations of bodies in a football hinchada (fan base) is analyzed on the basis of the articulation that those supporters make between body ideals, male models, and practices of bodily confrontation. This articulation results in the construction of a particular sense of community based on and through bodily experience. The body itself, fighting against rivals and friends, is the tool that allows identification with a group of peers; the action, the practice, is the element that defines the group's membership. The existence of identifications and the construction of collectives that are centered on practices and actions are thus analyzed. The discourses of identity that create and re-create "others" and "us" have different dimensions: narrative, gestural, bodily, and written (among others). The expressive forms of a group of football spectators are proposed as the means to analyze how some social groups prioritize the body and the experience that is anchored in it in their configuration of identificatory models.

Keywords : Football Fans; Identity; Body; Violence; Masculinity.

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