Art and Identity: Strategies in a social game

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https://doi.org/10.5380/cam.v7i1.5445

Keywords:

jogo, arte, identidade, intervenção social, game, art, identity, social intervention

Abstract

This article focuses the strategies of different social actors involved in an intervention project developed by a cultural conservation institution with a relatively privileged position in the artistic field the Museu de Arte Contemporânea of Niteroi (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil). The notion of game is a native category used by the social actors involved in the investigated project. This notion is taken from the field observations to analyze the process of social identities construction within a group of economically underprivileged young people which are the target of this project. The artistic production, although not the sole element considered, allowed the conflictive games between different interests to express themselves in the social games set in motion in the construction, keeping and destruction of reputations in that context.

Author Biography

Patrícia Reinheimer, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

mestre em Antropologia Social pelo Museu Nacional da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro e doutoranda na mesma instituição.

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2006-07-14

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Reinheimer, P. (2006). Art and Identity: Strategies in a social game. Campos - Revista De Antropologia, 7(1), 101–116. https://doi.org/10.5380/cam.v7i1.5445

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