Sports and Training seen as Alternatives to “Race Degeneration” during the first half of the 20th Century in Colombia

Sport and training are practices that have been thought and elaborated in different coordinates of the planet, however, their models remained anchored to the European cultural context until recent times. This article focuses on the analytical description of some conditioning factors of such times th...

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Autores:: Álvarez Torres, Jair Hernando
Cortés Díaz, José Tomás

Tipo de recurso:: Article of journal

Fecha de publicación:: 2018

Institución:: Universidad de Medellín

Repositorio:: Repositorio UDEM

Idioma:: spa

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Summary:	Sport and training are practices that have been thought and elaborated in different coordinates of the planet, however, their models remained anchored to the European cultural context until recent times. This article focuses on the analytical description of some conditioning factors of such times that promoted games, sports and training as possible solutions for the so-called decline of Colombian culture and race degeneration, particularly in the early 20th century. Intellectuals belonging to the Centennial Generation who sought a modernizing project for the country declared the race degeneration and started such debate. Literature review suggests that this group of elitist intellectuals had their feet in Colombia, but their perspectives and understandings focused in Europe and the United States; they sought to transform Colombia –culturally and socially–into a country of the old continent.

Sports and Training seen as Alternatives to “Race Degeneration” during the first half of the 20th Century in Colombia

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