Body, culture, and african philosophy

a swiftly knowledge

Abstract

By contextualizing unique cultural environments, the study analyzes, based on social practices in bodily manifestations, identity elements of social groups that express traditional and popular knowledge and are permeated by themes such as ethics, health, gender, work, consumption and cultural plurality. It chooses the categories of culture, corporeality, corporeality and African philosophy to deal with the knowledge of bodily manifestations and its central objective is to recognize knowledge in difference, as indicative of content with meaning and meaning in the cultures of different peoples. The research is bibliographic in nature, accompanied by a theoretical-qualitative approach, supported by accumulated production on the topic of body, culture and African philosophy. As basic references, we start from concepts such as culture, regional ontology, local knowledge and corporeality, chosen from accumulated authorial studies to understand the intrinsic relationship between body, culture and African philosophy within existing bodily manifestations. It concludes that when observing body techniques that express values, beliefs and everyday life, cultural identity and educational elements for human formation are perceived, which imply socio-pedagogical indicators.