Anthropology of Sport

Code:

317

Acronym:

AD

Instance: 2009/2010 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Course/CS Responsible:	Sports Sciences

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
LCD	180	Plano de Estudos a partir de 2008	3	-	3	30	81
		Licenciatura em Ciências do Desporto	3	-	3	30	81

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

The Sport’s Anthropology Curriculum Unit is designed to enable students to understand that sports is, above all, a cultural phenomena housing a cultural subject which grounds itself upon man, and therefore bringing to light an Anthropology’s course .
Students should have not only the knowledge of the anthropological groundings that authenticate sports but also should place them over time – temporal line – as through each individual lifetime – personal line.

Program

1. Searching for an anthropological founding of sports
a. Human Person as the core issue of Anthropology of Sports
b. Searching for a definition of Man
i. From ancient classics to modernity
ii. Difference between Man and animal
iii. Searching for transcendence as an element of difference
c. Understanding of the Culture concept
i. From E.Tylor to A. Kröeber
ii. Culture as a creative act
d. Searching for a definition of Sports
i. Sports and motor elements
ii. Sports and human elements
iii . Sports as a structure of meaning
iv. Proposal for a definition of Sports
e. Man and transcendence – sports and transcendence
2. Anatomical groundings of human revolution process
a. Origin of Man
b. Liberation of the hand
c. Acquisition of conscience
d. From standing position to “ running”
3. Roots of the human being. Human development and Sedentarism. Procedures to frame a cultural assumption
a. Obesity as a global problem
b. Presentation of an explanatory constellation
i. Techniques
ii. Human evolution
iii. Holocene
iv. The taming of plants
v. The taming of animals
c. Sedentarism and obesity as a result of 10.000 years of development
4. Body in Anthropology of Sports
a. Body and culture
b. Body along personal lifetime
c. Body and death: the search for immortality
5. Sports in the mythical - religious universe
a. Diving into the popular imaginary
b. Sports as a ritual and symbolic phenomena
c. Symbolics of sports
i. ball
ii. Spacio – temporal structure of sports
d. Sports’ actors and their symbolic role
6. Sports and modernity
a. Sports on society’s context
b. Modernity concept
c. From tradition to post – modernity
d. Sports on modernity perspective
e. Sports and hegemonic culture
f. Game and sports: approaches
7. Recreation Sports
a. Anthropological groundings
b. The rising of a new society
c. Etymological groundings of recreation
d. Recreation and School

Mandatory literature

Rui Garcia; No labirinto do Desporto, Imprensa Nacional - Casa da Moeda
Rui Garcia; Antropologia do Esporte, Shape Editora - Rio de Janeiro, 2007. ISBN: 85-85253-60-6

Complementary Bibliography

Clyde Kluckhohn; Antropologia. Um espelho para o homem, Editota Itatiaia, 2004. ISBN: 853190727-6
Richard Dawkins; A grande história da evolução, Companhia das Letras, 2009. ISBN: 978-85-359-1441-2

Teaching methods and learning activities

Explanatory method, with audio – visual resources, followed by debate.
Usually, classes end with a question which will be the starting point for the next class.
Students will be given all the learning mandatory elements and other bibliographical suggestions.

keywords

Social sciences > Anthropology

Evaluation Type

Assessment Components

Description	Type	Time (hours)	Weight (%)	End date
Attendance (estimated)	Participação presencial	28,00
	Exame
	Total:	-	0,00

Eligibility for exams

Students may choose between a final exam or perform three mid - term assessment throughout the semester. The second option needs 75% class attendance. Students without that exam won’t be assessed, unless those who have special statutes. Nevertheless, in these conditions, final exam will be allowed.

Calculation formula of final grade

Final exam: 9, 5 values equal or above to succeed the Curricular Unit.
Mid-term assessment: Final average equal or above 9, 5 values and none mark bellow 7, 5 values.

Examinations or Special Assignments

Final exam according the Pedagogical Board deliberation.

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

Final exam according the Pedagogical Board deliberation.

Classification improvement

Performance of a final exam on next term(s) according to the Porto University Assessment Rules.