Quilombola bodily practices: A study of academic production in physical education +

Abstract

The paper analyzes the sense/meaning of quilombola bodily practices in academic production, identifying their distribution by areas of knowledge and their geospatial mapping in Brazil. Theoretical and bibliographic research was carried out in databases from 1999 to 2019. The results point out that the sense/meaning of bodily practices is associated with social representations about the body culture of movement, showing that Physical Education and Education stand out among the areas of knowledge, and studies are geospatially distributed in Brazil. Research loci are predominantly in the Northeast region, whereas the University of Brasília and the Federal University of Ceará stand out in numbers of studies. The conclusion is that, while the topic is recent and studies are scarce, its relevance encourages a research agenda.