Cuerpos endurecidos: fútbol, violencia ritual y tensiones identitarias en los valles orientales de Jujuy

on the base of a series of ethnographic registrations developed in the departmento valle grande (prov. of jujuy - argentina), the central objective of the present work is the one of establishing the existent bonds among: bound processes of social categorization to the body, and their relationship with a specific field of study as it is it the practice of the fútbol. the party point went to consider to the fútbol like a combat sport developed inside some pre-established margins of physical and symbolic controlled violence. at the same time, this vhiculo allows us to visualize in a singular way the felt representations and tensions identitarias construídas around multiple you belonged collective (the class, the territory, the region, ethnic categories)