Year: 2007
Type: article
Abstract: The body, comprehended here as a cultural construct has suffered, facing the intense campaign of messages and practices, which intend to format it under the view of hegemonic culture. Among countless ways of expressions and communication, the cultural differences emerge also, in the “texts” produced and reproduced by the body. Not always, the repertory of gestures and corporal practices nurtured by the unprivileged communities is recognized and accepted for the hegemonic discourse. That picture leads to distorted symbols of class, ethic and gender presented in corporal practices of the dominant culture. This essay, when conceive the human movement as language which connects meanings, establishes a debate between the corporal culture pedagogy, the Semiotic and the process of identities constitution. Considering the current multicultural context, it proposes as a alternative for corporal education, a didactic action based on a critical analyses, re-signification and valuing of the ways of corporal expression present in the society.
Source: Caligrama (São Paulo Online)
Institution: Universidade de São Paulo
Language: Portuguese
Subfield: General Arts and Humanities
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2028442447