O transpasse da vida em vadiação: entre a capoeira, o cavalo marinho e o maracatu rural

Abstract

Capoeira, cavalo marinho and maracatu rural are afrobrazilian folk cultural phenomena. The act of vadiar or "playing" crosses these manifestations, even naming the act of practicing them. To address it, a phenomenology pertinent to cultural phenomena is applied, one that is into the field of the qualitative research in psychology. This work uses as methodological reference the Genetic and the Generative Phenomenology proposed by Edmund Husserl . So that we can identify which are and also how the living meanings of the "vadiar" configure themselves, this work aims to describe and comprehend the intentional structure which is essential to them all. The focus will center itself on the intersubjective dimension which estruturally manifestates itself to each practioner experiences, including the researcher's own personal experience, one which, once phenomenologycally accessed, integrates the methodological path. To fulfill the goal, incursions on philosophical and also qualitative methodological dimensions were made, elaborating that way an alternative observance theoretically grounded to achieve the purpose. The access to the phenomenon is made throughtout the reseracher's practical experience and through the phenomenologycal interview, which invites the participants to describe their own experiences and the way they occurred. After that, were selected those more experienced (seniors) in each cultural manifestation, being this seniority recognized by their communities when considering the maracatu rural and the cavalo marinho. When dealing with capoeira, this manifestation is phenomenologically articulated by contrastating its results with other results formerly achieved on a previous research. By aprehending the phenomenon on the body and flesh of its lived world, we are able to obtain, as a result, an structural form of a "transformation of the being", something essential to the "vadiar" manifestation, which implies on political, social and personal developments and ramifications on the practitioner's lifes. Then, in contrast with many historical, psychoanalytical, anthropologycal and sociological studies, we deepen the description and phenomenological comprehension of these cultural manifestations. This work concludes itself with considerations about the achieved results and new open fields for the continuity and phenomenological development of the subject.