Between the Apollonian and the Dionysian: Ethnography of two Running Teams

In Argentina, running as a lifestyle is channeled mainly –although not exclusively– through running teams. As key spaces for the sociability of runners, these training groups are also configured as conveying the main ethical and aesthetic precepts of running. Within a team, members have the possibil...

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Autor principal: Gil, Gastón
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Publicado: Instituto de Ciencias Antropológicas, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, UBA 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/CAS/article/view/5378
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Sumario:In Argentina, running as a lifestyle is channeled mainly –although not exclusively– through running teams. As key spaces for the sociability of runners, these training groups are also configured as conveying the main ethical and aesthetic precepts of running. Within a team, members have the possibility of constructing their different criteria of self-identification and going through their own itineraries as runners. In this article, two classic categories of anthropological thought (the Apollonian and Dionysian emotional configurations formulated in the School of Culture and Personality) are the starting point to describe the contrasting characteristics of two runner teams in the Argentinean city of Mar del Plata.