ABORIGINAL GAMES: THE SOCCER AS A TRADITIONAL KAINGANG SPORT

Abstract

The aboriginal research on games, been recently, have gained notoriety in the scientific community, although, they are playful activities, demonstrates myths and ethnic cultural values. In relation to the games practised by the Kaingang indians, the existing scientific stories are few, being that, the majority of the research is related to soccer being a traditional sport of this group. Some research points that, symbolically, soccer represents the war and the Kaingang´s war games. The present work is part of studies carried through, in a project of extension supported by the program University Without Borders and has as objective to investigate, by means of a bibliographical and ethnographical researches, the main Kaingang games, pointing at soccer as a traditional sport.