THE PETECA GAME ON THE COPACABANA BEACH SEEN BY ITS PRACTITIONERS

Abstract

Summary: This article will demonstrate how its practitioners comprehend the peteca game on the Copacabana beach. When we try to understand the speech of some practitioners of peteca game on the Copacabana beach, we try to  comprehend  the social imaginary of these people. The study -with a exploit and descriptive character, with a qualitative approach, of ethnographic  interpretation, presents as a field of investigation the postos (places) 2,3  and 6 of  Copacabana beach - it has been observed that the peteca is a dynamic game and of great motor simplicity:it has a low cost of its sportive material, and carries the tradition and the manifestation of children fun culture.  At the space of the beach it is presented in a variety forms and with characteristic of leisure activity. However, few people get involved in this game in Rio de Janeiro. We verify a number that developed and resists, with own characteristics, on the beaches, creating the identity of peteca on the beach.  These facts call our attention to understand better this phenomenon and focus on the beach as a space of valorization of human dimension.  It is believed that with this study we can contribute with the conditions that enable the public politics that contribute to these sportive activities of leisure on the beach looking forward to seeing better quality of life.