Cariocas and their body culture

O carioca e a cultura do seu corpo is a collection of scientific articles written by researchers from the Cia Carioca de Cultura Corporal at Castelo Branco University. A research, dance and performing arts group made up of Physical Education students and teachers, founded in 2007. The company studies the body critically, understanding it not as a set of bones, muscles and systems, but as a mediator and transformer of socio-cultural relations. What would this body be without the rich influence of the blacks kidnapped from Africa and forced to Brazil? What would Rio de Janeiro be like today without immigration from the Northeast? Or Arab-Muslim immigration? How is the docilization and colonization of the Indian body reflected in cultural practices in the past and today? Can one think and/or imagine Rio's body culture without samba, capoeira, forro, jongo, belly dancing or even soccer? These and other questions this book aims to answer by taking the reader on a deep dive into the concepts of body culture and the various influences of cultural matrices that have contributed to the formation of a body culture so peculiar to this social actor - the carioca.