Um estudo antropológico sobre um jogo absorvente na região central do Rio Grande do Sul

Abstract

This paper aims the analysis, interpretation and comprehension of the cognitive, social and cultural elements that consist the identity of cockfighters from the central region of Rio Grande do Sul. Throughout the work, I try to explain the significant cultural manifestations of cockfighting, associating their socio-historical contexts, analyzing the production of multiple forms of social memory and their interrelationships with the social time, the profiles, the relation between the group s members and among them, others from their relationship network. The research attempts to dialogue with the field of anthropology of emotions , seeking to observe the feelings movement expression through symbols, common signs or their own language, how learning takes place on working with feelings such as: loss, grief and sadness around and engrossing game that unleashes a flood of emotions both positive and negative. The methodology utilized was an ethnographic research with open interviews and participant observation. Through the research were addressed issues surrounding this group, whose gatherings are secret, for cockfighting is forbidden by law, for two reasons: assumed animal maltreatment and for being considered gambling.