Corporal Stories: Problems in debate

Abstract

The papers collected in "History Problems of the Body" [9 º Argentinian and 4 º Latin American Congress of Physical Education and Science], despite their individual characteristics, can be grouped under the following questions: how can a singular historical object analize the general objectives of social power? Where can we follow the traces in the body in its way through history? Body and history are an inseparable theoretical pair: there is no history without body or body without history. But, like any couple, this does not mean that they always agree or that their relation cannot be problematized. There are conflicts that the body has kept and that historians have not found, as there are ideals that are independent of any body and historians look for their incarnation. Perhaps we can find a reason that motivates all these works: the nature of the body is its history, a story to tell and that that is not natural