Más allá de la profundidad: una crítica materialista al convencionalismo de Morgan y al juego simbólico de Geertz
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https://doi.org/10.17230/co-herencia.23.45.8664Palabras clave:
Antropología del juego, Filosofía del deporte, Convencionalismo, Internalismo, Materialidad, William J. Morgan, Clifford Geertz, Thomas MalabyResumen
Este artículo examina los paralelismos poco estudiados entre el “convencionalismo profundo” de William J. Morgan en la filosofía del deporte y el “juego profundo” de Clifford Geertz en la antropología. Si bien ambos marcos rechazan las explicaciones universalistas –Morgan al situar la normatividad del deporte en las convenciones sociales y Geertz al interpretar la pelea de gallos balinesa (sabungan) como una lucha simbólica por el estatus–, comparten un importante punto ciego crítico: el descuido de las relaciones materiales que hacen posibles las prácticas culturales y, al mismo tiempo, las constriñen. Mediante una crítica comparativa y apoyándose en la antropología del juego de Thomas Malaby, el artículo demuestra cómo esas perspectivas pueden naturalizar inadvertidamente jerarquías sociales opresivas –por ejemplo, la exclusión racial y la violencia de género– al desvincular las prácticas de sus condi-ciones materiales. Se concluye abogando por un enfoque histórico que trascienda la dicotomía entre lo “profundo” y lo “superficial”, y que integre la materialidad en el análisis de las prácticas y los significados simbólicos del deporte y el juego.
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